Quest for Individuality

As the first signs of winter approach, birds gather in flocks to achieve their ultimate goal of flying down south for winter. Like these birds, mankind is propelled to encompass himself within the boundaries of a group or society that he could relate to. These boundaries, in physical reality, shape into many forms, some of them being religion, culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and class status. Mankind therefor limits him self to the ideologies and fundamental …showed first 75 words of 1232 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1232 total…over his self. Individuals blossom under a society, which gives them their rights. Such society is not a threat to individualism, nor is individualism a threat to such society. It is necessary for a society and individuals to exist. Whether you think that individuals make up society or society shapes the individual-neither can exist without the other. If you “choose” to follow some of society’s values you are expressing your individualism just by “choosing”.