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The cage

Our society and education moulds us: we must dare to be critical and reflect. A personal reaction to the WFD, from openDemocracy’s youth newsroom.

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Flickr/HeedingtheMuses. Some rights reserved.
Flickr/HeedingtheMuses. Some rights reserved.

Flickr/HeedingtheMuses. Some rights reserved.Finding different ways of learning and exploring more about yourself sometimes leads you to unexpected situations. You end up asking people around you if it is worth searching for a lot of things at the same time, if it is harmful or time consuming.

On the other side, you face multiple characters of people, you learn and you make mistakes. You rise, you fight for your rights and you live. It is that strange feeling of curiosity that makes you surround yourself with multiple conferences, meeting rooms, travelling around different countries. The desire for success, achievement and development takes you to unknown paths, and you feel so small, unpowerful and unsafe to believe that you are the one that you decide for your own life. But especially when you face your insecurities, you start the long journey of knowing your rights. And when you achieve, to learn more about your rights and responsibilities, you realize how blind you were before.