minimalism

Zadie Smith in her famous essay collection titled 'Feel Free'' wrote the following lines on the nature of human conditioning: People who believe in fundamental and irreversible changes in human nature are themselves ahistorical and naive, if novelists knew anything  its that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioural possibilities, they are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed , depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conditioning,          

I love a white decor and a white flowy  dress just like I love any other neutrals of white. Recently I grappled with the question of white being my favourite colour as everyone I know loves my favour-ism for whites /neutrals and they have seemingly categorised me into a white lover as naturally  as possible due to my seemingly over the top white possessions .

So, when a  friend asked me recently about my favourite colour, a lot of colours swarmed into my head , each with its own beauty but I finally did settle with white. As per her curiosity , she went on further questioningly saying if white was really my favourite colour or is just in my mind that is conditioned to believe that white is my favourite colour syncing myself to the norm and culture of the existing white ling/minimalist/basic phenomenon that is pretty much prevalent everywhere.

I juxtaposed for a minute at her observation and questioned myself until it began to slightly occur to me that there is a very thin line between my innermost favouritism for colour or my socially conditioned favouritism for colour. It all began to hazily yet clearly make  sense that there is no existence of a mind wherein it cannot be conditioned even the pettiest of petty things.

Take for example; right from the moment we begin off as fetuses and are born into this world we are genetically imbibed with a certain appease of things which pretty much marks down certain choices of our lives if not everything.
Furthermore, with social conditioning being a very predominant factor, we cannot deny that it outright marks our inclination for things but that course takes up a distinctive action only when there happens to be a varying degree of interest from our own prolific interests of things, we take a liking and we try to emulate our liking into what we choose for ourselves, it is as simple as that. Period.

In the other scenario one cannot forget the dire consequences where there are pressures involved in fitting in the trending norms and cultures but regardless of that in an overall general view the mind is widely open to everything and it processes filters and accepts its own inclination of things/course of action
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Well.... then is originality nonexistent?
I think it all depends on how far we are willing to go on finding out the originality of things and the originality of our lives. Maybe it is the journey towards finding out the originality that actually ends up giving meaning to our lives or more or less shaping our lives.

For example just envision a blank canvas and watch carefully how one stroke continue to align with the other and it goes on and on until a masterpiece is formed . The same goes on with our life; we are continually on the process of our own experimentation of things.

The French poet Aragon once said “by the time we learn to live it’s already too late”.