Individual & Community

While the definition of an individual is solid and does not change, the definition of a community can include a much broader range, whether it be something small such as your family, to something as large as your country. What each individual contributes to a community varies on what type of community they are in. However, no matter what community, the individual has a role they should fulfill. This role includes being knowledgeable of their community and what it does, its issues, knowing its rules or laws, and obeying them, caring for the well being of those in the community, and being able to take a stand, even in the smallest efforts when they feel something in their community is flawed or handled wrong. By taking part in these roles, individuals should be able to handle and care for what takes place in their community. In some communities the role of an individual is much greater than the role the play in a much large community. As a country we constantly are faced with the struggle of balancing the wants and needs of the "self" with the maintenance and betterment of the "whole". Despite every attempt without our country to balance these two very different things, we have yet to find a solution, or even a compromise. People are never happy with what society presents to them as a balance between the two. I feel that we will constantly struggle to balance the needs and wants between the two because they constantly change.

Lauren Wencus