Belonging Essay
Every individual has the potential to enrich/challenge a community or group.
As individual’s we are not limited to just singularly enriching or challenging a community of group. Our role is not definitive; there is not a concrete set of parameters that must be adhered to, thus, our impact on a community or group is multi-layered. Individually we all have an ability to govern our contribution and influence on a community or group, which is determined by the way in which we perceive, and more importantly, act upon our personal views of a communities or groups’ systems, values and principles. Ultimately, every individual has the capacity to synonymously enrich and challenge a community or group. Moreover, they do not have to challenge a group per se, but can accompany this challenging of conformity with enriching the community, making it better off and richer and adding value to it from their involvement. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It,’ Jim Loach’s ‘Oranges and Sunshine’ and Armin Greder’s ‘The Island’ convey how individuals have this potential and choose to act accordingly due to personal beliefs, morals, consequences or even unknowingly.
JACQUES * When an individual challenges a group, it can be by the ways they do not fit in with the others, or upset the norm or make the group adjust, adapt and grow in order to accommodate the ‘different’ individual; ultimately enriching the community. * Jacques is quintessential of the notion that an individual can enrich a community or group through challenging its normalcy. He is unique in the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially, he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities, instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so, he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus, by challenging these groups and
As individual’s we are not limited to just singularly enriching or challenging a community of group. Our role is not definitive; there is not a concrete set of parameters that must be adhered to, thus, our impact on a community or group is multi-layered. Individually we all have an ability to govern our contribution and influence on a community or group, which is determined by the way in which we perceive, and more importantly, act upon our personal views of a communities or groups’ systems, values and principles. Ultimately, every individual has the capacity to synonymously enrich and challenge a community or group. Moreover, they do not have to challenge a group per se, but can accompany this challenging of conformity with enriching the community, making it better off and richer and adding value to it from their involvement. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It,’ Jim Loach’s ‘Oranges and Sunshine’ and Armin Greder’s ‘The Island’ convey how individuals have this potential and choose to act accordingly due to personal beliefs, morals, consequences or even unknowingly.
JACQUES * When an individual challenges a group, it can be by the ways they do not fit in with the others, or upset the norm or make the group adjust, adapt and grow in order to accommodate the ‘different’ individual; ultimately enriching the community. * Jacques is quintessential of the notion that an individual can enrich a community or group through challenging its normalcy. He is unique in the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially, he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities, instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so, he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus, by challenging these groups and