Chained.

Society has us chained up. Like prisoners. Prisoners of cruelty. Prisoners of hardship. Prisoners of life.

Society controls people. It manipulates people. Or rather, it controls our thinking. Our mentality has changed so drastically from the past. I mean, now happiness don't really mean much anymore. The most important thing in everyone's life is success. Has anyone noticed this yet? Everything we do, the ultimate goal is success. We all aim to be successful.

The journey to success is full of traps. Traps and obstacles that will hurt you and try to make you fail. These obstacles are never easy to overcome. It takes alot of power to overcome just one. And there are so many more to go through. And through this mad struggle for success, people sacrifice and forsake happiness. Isn't happiness the key to success? It seems like in our current society, it is the other way round. And even so, success does not equate to happiness. Success now is about people sacrificing their happiness for it. And it is happiness that they will never experience again.

Another thing is, murder is a serious crime in our world. Yet, does murder only circle around human beings? What about animals? Animals are living beings just like us. They have emotions. They can feel pain, suffering and fear. Stop for a moment and think. The meat that you are having for lunch and dinner. How did it come about? How did the animals get slaughtered? How did they feel when humans cast their razor-sharp blades into their hearts? Did you know the methods that humans used to kill these innocent animals? Animals have feelings too. So the mindless slaughter of animals is not murder, and yet for humans, it is? What gives us the right to do this? Just because that animals cant talk or retaliate, does that mean that we can do whatever we want with them?

Yet, society covers all these up. The truth is covered up. They make us think that it is fine and normal to do stuff like these. Society changes the priority of life. Society changes our mindsets.

So how can we say that we aren't prisoners of our society?