Life is about negotiating your existence. "Negotiating your existence in a social world." That is what life is all about, a compromise between your wants and what the society expects from you.
It's a never ending transaction, wherein success in getting what you want primarily depends on how you negotiate, and articulate it, in the context of a social world with many expectations of how you should be defined.
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In the process, we shouldn't sell our souls to fulfill "what society expects".
Yes, we shouldn't sell our souls to fulfill other's expectations. But in some ways, our condition - be it good or bad - at present is shaped by the society around us. The failure to negotiate this will result in boycotts, gossips even threats etc which might in the end make things worse for us. Especially in the Malay society, this is so true. Words gossips and what not, spread like wildfire. However justified our cause may be, this is something we have to consider. Look at Farish Noor for example. I understand his essence, his hope to change the Malay mindset. But he does this in a sudden abrupt way without negotiating his revolutionary thoughts with the society surrounding him. As a result, he has been dubbed the enfant terrible, a deviant, a murtad, a threat to Islam etc.
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