Community is about groups of people who respect, love, and care for one another. The community members will stay together and keep strong through thick and thin in order to reach a common goal, to help a member achieve greatness, or to resolve one’s conflicts with life and its cruelties. The purpose of a community is to provide insight on one’s social outlook in life, and what will never be known beyond death. Having community can strengthen one’s social bonds, self-esteem, and self-actualization. Though community is the overall harmony of one’s friends or family, there is no one greater in that community than one itself; the individual is the strongest.
Community members – the individuals and their personalities – are what make the community what it is. If there was no one to form the group, where is that group? The group would have never existed and there would be no communities at all. The human body even works as a community, with each individual atom making cells that flow through one’s veins to make the system work. Humans are just like cells, and as every single creature (plant or animal, living or dead) goes through the cycle of life and death, new communities will be created as old ones never truly die. It is the individual’s responsibility to keep the community alive in at least one way, and to never change it.
There is no set description for which the individual must follow, or whatever qualities they must posses; the one factor they do need is to have existed. To one’s eyes, existence could mean to be the most popular kid in school, and in another’s it could be to have been born. Henry David Thoreau, to find his existence, went “to the woods” in order for himself to “live deliberately, to front only the essential fa...
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...world in his or her own eyes. Some see the good in the world, while others find the world to be a death trap full of lies and deceit. Some people want to provide answers in order to continue on and shape themselves, and others are happy how they are. The trick with being an individual is to just let whatever happens happen, and to not try to change it. The start is how one is viewed, and that view will not change. The individual will keep their mark forever imprinted onto the community, and they will keep the place running, as it should. The individual is the ruler of the community.
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