You never really graduate from high school. The characters you met then will always haunt you in a way or another. The situations you once faced will occur again and again. The fears and expectations will always be there, lurking in the shadows, awaiting the right moment to strike. High school is a rehearsal for the real world, but severely lacking instructions on how to deal with different scenarios that arises from the many variables.
The herd mentality is especially prominent, and carries over spectacularly to the workplace. Thoughts and actions are moulded according to what the pack wants. Individuals within and outside of the pack are then often pressurised into acknowledging and succumbing to the pack decision even though the individual was never part of the pack. Such a decision often send ripples through the network and cause further disruptions in the natural order of things.
But what is natural? From the first day we were gifted the privilege of free will, nothing is free. Every single action and decision is formed and undertaken because of an extrinsic motivation. Internal decisions that are supposedly solely dependant on the thoughts of an individual are also influenced by extrinsic factors. The "free choices" in life are the very force that controls and dictates.
The pack draws the lots in a fixed lottery, and provides backing to the individual not unlike how large corporations are backed by governments. To have even the slightest fighting chance, a backing of significant importance or size is paramount. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. And in the end, it has been a numbers game, and will always be a game of numbers.
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