Questioning taboos

Day #4 at curiousness

"... Not one of them would sit down, or eat a bit of anything.. on expressing my curiosity at this, they said they were all taboo: the word which has a very comprehensive meaning, but, in general signifies a thing that is forbidden.."

Prohibition, restricted, non-acceptance or call it forbidden.. all these words mean just one thing 'taboo.'

Don't do this, don't go there, don't say this, don't see this.. i mean why is everyone tied up in the chains of taboos?

chains running from ages and eras yet people don't want to free them selves from the shackles.

I have seen dreams being broken, things being forced and people suffocating.. all under one thing, one name, one mindset that's taboo.

I like talking about a taboo because it makes them not a taboo anymore.

whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.. after all taboos are just hangovers, the products of diseased and small minds, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live by their choices.

the problem is taboo is not just one thing, its everything and its everywhere.

We say we are the future, the new generation, we are people with open minds and yet.. yet if someone says they are gay, or bisexual I see people cringing, raising eyebrows and cursing them! why?

isn't this still a taboo?

Being a feminist.

Being happily unmarried.

Being a homosexual.

Having sex before marriage.

Periods.

Religion.

Caste.

Mental health.

Aren't all these things still a taboo to our society?

and the most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the one which goes against knowing who you really are.

whats wrong if someone doesn't wants to be a doctor or and engineer?

whats wrong if someone doesn't likes being with the opposite sex?

whats wrong if someone had sex?

whats wrong with a girl going to the temple on her periods.. if god had to forbade it, why would he even give it in the first place?

whats wrong if someone had mental illness? isnt that person a human? or he is not allowed to be treated as one?

whats wrong in being something different, something world has never seen?

70% of the people still live under the rotten roofs of these so called 'forbidden things.' 

some would say its out culture to preserve whats our ancestors gave us.. its our culture to continue what has been going on since last 100 years.

I says okay, preserve your culture but preserve whats meant to be preserved and what is beneficial to people alive right now, right here.. continue what makes sense.

I guess its time to RETHINK everything.

RE-FRAME everything and present it to the world in an entirely different way.

And no, its not on the shoulders of just one person or the president.. a revolution is bought by people, not by a person!

I really hope that someday taboos wont be harmful anymore.. people wont be afraid to know themselves, present themselves to the world as they are.. live as they want to and grow as they always wanted to.

These fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers, by the people to keep us in the similar chains they have been living with, to manipulate us with the unknown fears.

Now lets just be fearless.

overthrow the totems, break the taboos. or better, let us consider them cancelled.

coldly, let us be intelligent.

Trespass the taboos.

Let the change happen.

** comment your views on taboos and whats that taboo you want to break?**

I hope i did my little something and contributed to the change that's most needed at this hour.

- curious since '93