Contribution To Community

Communities remain helpful to join or create because they provide support to the individuals who get impacted by the daily stress, struggles, and chaos of modern life. Humans by nature live life as social beings, and no one can escape this. We need to live our lives around other people for us to feel happy, secure, and safe. For us to truly thrive we need to become active in our local community. In Chapter 6 of the book “The Language of Composition” by Renée H. Shea, an author and professor at Bowie State University, the individual contributions to the community show importance because of how it strengthens the individual, it strengthens the the community, and it remains impossible to find one’s individuality and identity without the individual

Local economies expand, businesses succeed, education grows, and support systems become more efficient. When life becomes difficult, it remains those who have a strong community support system that ends up better off. In the article “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” by Henry David Thoreau, an American philosopher and naturalist, Thoreau urges each man to awaken fully and "elevate his life by conscious endeavor." It remains a man's duty to make every moment of his life meaningful. Thoreau went to the woods to "live deliberately." He has faith in simplicity as the path to spiritual wakefulness. Thoreau prevailed as a man who did not need a community. Not everyone does. In the speech “Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College” by Anna Quindlen, an American author and opinion columnist, Quindlen became efficient in conveying the message in her speech that one does not need to try to achieve perfection. Quindlen stresses the importance of staying original and to quitting the dreams of wanting a perfect life. She wants people to “drop the backpack” that remains filled with all the weight they carry trying to become perfect and to not let anyone try to steer them away from their own goals and ambitions in life. Both Quindlen and King believe that if one finds the right community to become involved in, he or she will become successful and find happiness. Both authors found themselves after going through rough

Participating in a local community helps people fulfill their need of having a purpose. Understanding the importance of community and becoming more active within one will greatly increase the quality of life. After all, no one wants to live a lonely and detached life. Imagine if a natural disaster occurred. Would it seem better to turn to people one knows and could trust for help? Imagine if one became ill. Could a community of people who cared about that person make him or her feel better? Of course they