Literature
Sing With a Smile and Pray Nobody Notices
When you're young, it becomes drilled into you to be who you are and never let anyone get in the way.
As you get older, you'll find that it's all a lie.
The new mantra becomes "Be normal."
"Fit in."
"Do as society tells you."
To be yourself may go against general opinion, thus making you public enemy number one...
...Along with all the others.
So you do what any smart and reasonable person would do...
You bury yourself.
You dig a hole and lie in your coffin, waiting for the lid to be closed by someone who's opinion you used to be taught would never matter.
And as you allow the weight of the earth to crush you into oblivion, you ask