It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they have done themselves. This never happens as we consider individuality is somebody’s business and we just have to copy it in to our life. When we go wrong we choose to blame that somebody. We do not see the value is ours, our own. To whomsoever we give that value, our value rises.
We become perfect individuals only when our values and actions are determined by our own distinctive judgment. Almost all we say and do is in conformity with the beliefs and behavior of other members of our family, community or nation. The way of dressing, eating, choice of education and career, greeting friends or strangers, codes of conduct, judgments of other people, sense of superiority or inferiority to others depending on wealth, class, education or caste - all indicate that we are not distinct social individuals in the true sense. We in many ways try to convince ourselves and others of our uniqueness by affirming our favorite habits. But these are only skin deep appearances. Individuality is not a surface difference. It is born and emerges from deep within us.
There are so many factors in the society that moulds and governs an individual. It is his attitude which runs the whole game in the fair way. He should think and form his own opinion of social and national issues. Accept only after understanding them to be right and not because they are spoken or endorsed by others. The right should be decided on the strength of his mental judgment and do what he feels to be right than what others do or approve. He should rely on himself and accept only what is due to him from others and judge himself in terms of what he knows himself to be as a human being. Individuality of those who disagree with him must be respected. Their criticisms should be taken as their personal opinion and impartially evaluate the truth of in them, rather than taking them as abuse that evokes his anger, defensiveness or resentment. Becoming a perfect individual is the highest human achievement of self realization which is the direct path to supreme accomplishment in life.
Each individual is birthed from the societal stew, yet our lives are our own expression and responsibility. Part of being an adult is to learn how to stop blaming others and start manifesting ourselves. This may be hard to do unless we carefully examine what we believe, where we came from, and how these two things relate to each other. Individual mind is very much influenced by other’s minds as it tends to think what others think, and create along the lines others have created. Individuality is to break out of this mode, to think differently and manifest what has not existed before. In fact, to think and create something out of nothing is the process of creation itself.
A person who becomes consciously aware of his or her true self will facilitate the expression of his or her individuality, thereby accelerating the process of personal accomplishment and growth for themselves and the world. A moral sense has traditionally been considered to be a unique attribute of the human personality. The transformation from a biological organism to a socially responsible individual is the hallmark of the development of personality and is a shared social development necessary for viable human society.
Society can influence the behavior of its members in many ways by making laws to give severe punishments for antisocial behaviors. It can develop a strong desire for ethics and morals through religious institutions. It can hold professionals to strong ethical codes of conduct, educate and inform them through school systems and media outlets. But a society can control the behavior of its citizens by virtue of the inherent ability for mental growth and maturity, which is called self-actualization or individuation, a natural inclination of humans to behave in a perfect moral or ethical manner.
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