status quo

opinions or no opinions, freedom of expression or no freedom of expression, life or no life...every parent is freaky when it comes to their kids breaking status quo. Archana "you can not wear that shirt its not appropriate" archana "you cant eat without a table cloth" archana you can not go for a movie anywhere but PVR" ggggrrrrhhhhhhhh......(roars)
GIVE ME A BREAK!!
that is the pressure to stick to the status quo!
Status quo is a Latin term meaning the present existing state of affairs, or "the state in which". To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they currently are.
how you dress, how you eat, how you sleep, whom you marry, where you study, where you live, what number and kind of vehicles you drive, where you go for your vacations is all decided by status quo.
like in school, the cool guys went to the western music bands, and you were not allowed to think of the Indian choir as cool. this was because that is common perception "Indian music at school is not cool"
like at work, status quo dictates that you do not talk in an overly friendly manner to the office boy. that is not because you yourself feel weird about it, but because you have been taught from ever that you do not treat everybody unconditionally.
OH NO!! i am not going to change how the world has been running...but there is this tiny bird hiding under my nest of hair..and she says "what you like and what you believe in...is an expression of who you are. not who your forefathers were or chose to be" and i love that tiny bird...and maybe one day she will be forced to fly away from that nest to never come back but until then with all my naivete in place under my skull...i shall stick to my bird and not the bird of others.