Cages Dressed in Gold: The Truth About Society’s Unrealistic Standards

It’s a common thing that a lot of things in our society now have a standard, I mean when you look at your left or your right, you would see a rule that has been set by the society for everything partaining to human life. From the way a person should act, and I mean people of different caliber, how a pastor is meant to act, an alfa, to a baddie, or a working class, a fruadster, and so on. It’s worst to the case that there is a standard age for people getting married or when a person is meant to achieve one thing or another.

Everywhere you turn, someone is setting a standard for how you should live.
Social media tells you what success looks like. Society defines what beauty should be. Family and friends remind you where you “should” be at your age. And somehow, no matter how hard you try, it always feels like you’re falling short. This is all because of the unrealistic standards we have set for ourselves.

We live in a world where perfection is praised and mistakes are magnified. The pressure to fit in, to keep up, or to be seen as “doing well” can slowly crush individuality. But here’s the question when do these expectations stop being motivational and start becoming unrealistic?

Because sometimes, what the world calls “standards” are just cages dressed in gold.

Welcome everyone to my blog, my name is fashtioluwa and today we would be talking about one of society problem which has pushed a lot of adult and youth into doing things they are not meant to do because of the standard that the society has set for them and which most of the time are unrealistic.

Hear me out, while it is true that there are some things that are meant to to have been achieve by a certain age, it doesn’t certify that it has to be the standard for everyone in our society. Everyone has their life to live and how they live their life shouldn’t be anyones problem in as much they are living their life without harming or affecting anyone in a negative way.

One of the unrealistic standards that has made a lot of young boys run into the business of fruad is the standard set by the society. At a certain age, if you are not out of your parent house, own a house and drive a car, then yourr not successful or have anything to offer. This idea has made a lot of people go into illegal business and many of them have lost their life to this.

The truth is, life is not a race, it’s a journey and I have ce to accept this fact. Your timeline doesn’t have to match anyone else’s. Success doesn’t have one definition, and neither does happiness. The moment we stop comparing our growth to someone else’s highlight reel is the moment we truly start living.

So, the next time you feel pressured by society’s standards, pause and ask yourself: Whose life am I really living?
Because at the end of the day, peace will always be worth more than public approval.

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Thanks for reading. My name is Fashtioluwa.