To what degree is our furture in our hands?

    I think that our future is in our hands to a certain degree. I am in control of my own actions but not in control of the way other people perceive and react to them. I can work as hard as I can at something and think that it is a work of art, but everyone has different opinions so my art may be someones   trash. With that I know that if my future was up to me I would be able to shock and awe people, but there are so many different standards of so many different people it's hard to please everyone. I am able to do what I can do, but the way someone else interprets my actions and hard work is entirely out of my hands. I could try to make everyone else happy by working extremely hard for not much of a result, but then I wouldn't be happy. On the other hand I could do what I wanted to do, and be satisfied with my work, but no one else would be. I find it sad in society that everyone is compared to everyone else. Why can't people just be judged for who they are right then and there rather than in comparison to someone who is "worse" or "better" than them? Everyone is different and everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. So when someone doesn't do something exactly the way everyone else does it, it is considered wrong. If something makes sense and has a good message then I don't think the little things matter. Our society is drilling into people that everyone needs to be the same, have the same education, same thoughts, and the same beliefs but this is all subconscious. We don't realize that all the education system does is make everyone think and act alike, which in some ways is beneficial, but what ever happened to individualism? Why does it matter what formula in math I use as long as I get the right answer in the end? Why does it matter where I put punctuation or a thesis statement as long as the message is clear in the end? This is why I think that my future is farther out of my hands than I realize. Because there is so much conformity in society that no matter what I do I will never be the person who on point grammar or can add in my head in 2 seconds. I will forever be myself and do what I believe truly matters in life. I am not going to conform myself to what I believe to be idiotic. I will never be what society wants and I am totally okay with that because I am happy with myself. I don't care if that makes me stubborn.