Rules: Are They Made Just So That They Can be Broken??

The other night I was talking to two of my friends and boy are they into their gossip ( if you are reading this, you know who you are :p ). There were times during the evening, sitting right at that table I had the feeling of being completely by myself!! The best part of the evening was, when one of the friends said that she knows something about people in group but she is not willing to share!! If any thing it made that part of the gossip more interesting for all the people at the table and my friend eventually ended up spilling the beans! Now in general my attitude towards gossip is, if I don’t know it it doesn’t hurt i.e. I like to be blissfully unaware of the ‘situations’ so that I can make my own unbiased decisions when I deal with those people. All gossip does is creates prejudice. I believe people behaviour and response to ‘situations’ changes as the situation and involved people change. Most people that I come across in my day to day life seem to get along well with me ( ofcourse some do get on my nerves, but then again, if I don’t see them for a few days, I am ok when I meet them next. Yes, time is the best medicine again mildly irritating personalities. ) and with eachother. So not knowing the gossip makes my life easier and happier.

I have digressed from the topic for today’s blog, but I had to get my view on gossip across to my readers. Coming back to the point, my friends were discussing how certain social rules were broken etc. ( u get the gist, it was gossip! J….. ). This brings me to the first question, rules: are they meant to be broken?? This is a very interesting subject area, and a very grey area at that. Cause whenever I hear about social rules being broken by someone ( I am going to spare my readers the gory details of which rules were broken how etc. ), I always tend to sit back and ask myself, was there any rule in the first place? Are there any rules in general? Well ofcoruse there is one universal rule that you don’t harm any one physically and we actually have laws preventing that from happening. But what about things that are not covered by law? Which brings me to the question are there any rules in the first place? I had written in one of my previous blogs (http://athingforcars.com/autos/life-on-the-road-vs-life/ ) about how people tend to obey the laws in general but come up with their own set of rules on the go. And the interesting thing is the laws have universal appeal but the rules can change drastically amongst societies!