Living in a society with rules and conformity has proven to be cumbersome at times and stifling at worst. But deny it or not, these rules are the very same governing powers that allow us to live in a society that keeps us secured and sheltered. When then are we bestowed upon our rightful privilege to exercise our purest deviant nature? I still do concur that ultimate radicalism has proven ill at times as well, and deadly at worst.

Although these may actually apply to almost any set of rules and tenets, try to keep your focus on to something more definitive and concise. Choose what best applies to you at the moment.

I’ll try to keep it simple for now. For me, what I’d really want to zone in on are the loose rules on love and relationships. In the first place, no one has ever set these in stone, or more practically in writing. So I guess the very main fact that this is how our ways of love and relationships are lived by brings up its very fundamental dys-functionality.

More often than not however, people have enough guts and, to a greater degree, tenacity to bend the rules not just a little but even at times enough to break them. We do this for several reasons and for what it’s worth, they do make sense.

Allow me share some.

Experience. Here’s to trying out something out of the ordinary. Thinking out of the box as it were, and by box, you know what I mean. It is this thirst for new understanding and I guess familiarity to something that is not our norm which compels us to bend the rules and ultimately break them. This allows us to create something new, but in the end, these new creations give birth to a new set of rules which in time would be bent and broken. And thus the cycle continues with added experience on each round.

Challenge. Here’s to a more distinct color of seeking new experiences. We’ve known that these rules have existed for a reason, and more often than not, it is because they’ve been proven to work. Although some may be questionable, most aren’t. But the thrill we encounter in going against the rules provides immeasurable ecstasy. It is our challenge to discover new heights and newfound glory by taking a different route. And it is actually more of the getting there rather than the destination that really makes it all worth it.

Proof. Here’s to an even more particular flavor of seeking challenges. Given the knowledge that following a definite set of rules has proven wise, sometimes their lack of flexibility hinders our creativity and thus our ability to innovate and revolutionize. It is by breaking the rules that we prove to all that there is a different way of doing things, and it may not or, when successful, may be the best way of doing it. It is people like us – people who take risks – that make the world evolve and grow. Stagnation is not an option for us. And along with the courage and bravery that we posses is the responsibility to accept the consequences, that our decisions were made in good faith and for the right reasons.

Of course, other motives may prove appropriate or otherwise, but I leave it up to you to sharpen your senses and know when it is fitting to break to the rules and when not to.

Credits to beforethecoffee for the High Speed Photography image.