Albert Camus said 'What is a rebel? A man who says no.' . When a mother says to her child-go to bed, the child says-no. Rebel? No, this is not a rebel. It is not a metaphor for rebellion against authority, it is unreasonable and stubborn. Not every case in which a person refuses to do something is a case of rebellion, it is the cases where we use our reason to come to the conclusion for refusal. Most of the time a rebel is confused to be a negative person or often even called a hater. I say the opposite- a rebel is the one and only person that loves truly and deeply. He loves art, music, creativity, people and the world. Don't get me wrong- he does hate. He despise stupidity and the absence of reason, the absence of people's own ability to judge and think for themselves. A rebel is an intelligent man who uses his mind; he is not the one who draws graffiti on the bus stop or breaks the window of a shop, he is not the one who drinks on the street after the club closes, he does not cause a fight in a pub or listens to music loud at night. These are the grown up versions of the immature children that said NO to their mothers and that keep seeing no to society. Society has build up this image of a rebel, a teenager that smokes and drinks, a man or woman with no job or perspective for the future, who does nothing but cause destruction and wastes time. These are not rebels.
These are the rebels I am talking about.
They don't look anything like rebels, right? These are not the people who destroy, these are the people who built and create. That's what a rebel is. A man who says no and does it his way, and believe me, he does it better that anyone else.
