An individual is a person with an identity. Since a society is compromised of a group of individuals, there are similar and contrasting interests dispersed throughout the variety of people which can be ignored or accepted. Individuality consists of constant peer pressure which leads to the challenging question: when in life is it the time to conform to society’s expectations? Although independence makes everybody different, isolation is the resultant and can transform one’s psychological issues of how to cope with separation. Individuality connotes freedom of expression without the need of anybody else’s influence. Society is a cruel monster that never leaves your side; and one must battle their entire life to try to escape its influential power over one’s mind and life style. Disrespect and no consideration for one’s values belittles one to the extent that conforming to society is necessary at some level; and as your life continues to change, and so have the societies around you, it is then your opportunity to judge how your values define yourself and what needs to change in order to conform and what personal qualities remain the same. Transitions and acceptance can illuminate your growth from one atmosphere to another; such as, changing schools, adapting fashions trends, etc. Conformity is a version of growing as an individual and sometimes it is necessary to live in a happy environment instead of suffering from disrespect.
Thesis: While at first individuality presumably leads to happiness and freedom from conformity, close examination reveals that disrespect and isolation is the consequence without conventionally abiding to society’s inescapable pressurized way of life.
An individual is a person with an identity. Since a society is compromised of a group of individuals, there are similar and contrasting interests dispersed throughout the variety of people which can be ignored or accepted. Individuality consists of constant peer pressure which leads to the challenging question: when in life is it the time to conform to society’s expectations? Although independence makes everybody different, isolation is the resultant and can transform one’s psychological issues of how to cope with separation. Individuality connotes freedom of expression without the need of anybody else’s influence. Society is a cruel monster that never leaves your side; and one must battle their entire life to try to escape its influential power over one’s mind and life style. Disrespect and no consideration for one’s values belittles one to the extent that conforming to society is necessary at some level; and as your life continues to change, and so have the societies around you, it is then your opportunity to judge how your values define yourself and what needs to change in order to conform and what personal qualities remain the same. Transitions and acceptance can illuminate your growth from one atmosphere to another; such as, changing schools, adapting fashions trends, etc. Conformity is a version of growing as an individual and sometimes it is necessary to live in a happy environment instead of suffering from disrespect.
ReplyDeleteThesis: While at first individuality presumably leads to happiness and freedom from conformity, close examination reveals that disrespect and isolation is the consequence without conventionally abiding to society’s inescapable pressurized way of life.
Sum: While individualism seems the better choice, the isolation will erode happiness. (This is a surprising and interesting thesis claim, and it will be fun to see how you develop it through examples. It might be oversimplified a little. Try to clean up the prose in your sentences so they read more simply.)