Standard, Success, You

People always tell you what you should do, they create one and one standard to determine whether you are successful or not. In their opinion, there is a perfect standard timeline for everyone: study, college, job, marriage, children. However, the fact is this kind of social clock disregard individual difference, it simply distributed person’s life into multiple landmark events that everyone has to do. If you fail to achieve any one on time, it seem like you are considered as off the pace.

A sense of continuity is present between the photos, which, first, could guide the audience’s gaze from one to another. Each image represents a specific landmark event that is required in the particular age range. Also, I want to bring a sense of repeated. The last one seems to repeat the first one, which indicates that it is a loop. Everyone is on the timeline to achieve other’s expectations, at the same time, they also are loop builders to consolidate the generational transmission of standard. Oldest told you to finish some landmark event within a particular age range, they say study hard, go to top-ranked college, get a high wage job, time to get married, have a child. Then, when you have a child, it may turns to you to tell your children to go to school, go to college ……