In the essay “No, You Don’t Need to Go to Holiday Parties If You Feel Lonely” by Neha Gajwani, there are a lot of good points, but I do not fully agree with the essay. It is not a bad thing to force yourself to go to social events. When you force yourself to go to events it can help build social skills, expose you to a celebratory environment contributing to a sense of belonging and creating long lasting memories with other people and exposes you to diverse types of people leading to new experiences and world views. Forcing yourself to go to social events and activities provides opportunities to build your social skills. Social skills are something that develops yourself, not something that you are just born with. If you don’t go to social events, …show more content…
Social events, especially ones during the holidays, can have a celebratory environment. Events in celebratory environments are filled with positive energy and joy. When you are in this kind of environment, it can give you a sense of belonging. When you have a sense of belonging, you stop faking happiness and start to feel real happiness. When you are in a celebratory environment with other people, you can create long lasting memories with different people. When you create those types of memories, you can always look back and feel the happiness you did in that moment. When you go to social gatherings, you are often exposed to a lot of different types of people. When you are exposed to different types of people, you start to see things from a different perspective. When you see things from someone else’s perspective, especially a person filled with joy, you can start to notice the little things in life that matter. When you meet different people, you can have new experiences, when you have new experiences, you can live life to the
In my opinion, to be social is a good thing for every human. However, sometimes society becomes more dangerous for us when it tries to kill our own morality. The police officer was influenced by other people to kill the elephant and it made him feel guilty. However, David Sedaris forged ahead by himself and finally, he understood the French language and he felt proud of himself. Both characters were under pressure in their situations, but at the end the police officer was unhappy and David Sedaris was happy. Therefore, it is very important what we like to do, not what others demand. Everybody should respect their own personal
In the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, a group of clones take a unique journey through adolescence. These clones are modeled after real humans, and they grow up with the knowledge that they will one day die donating their vital organs to the aforementioned. In their early lives, the clones are quarantined in a boarding school from which they are not allowed to leave. As the group grows older though, they split up and move to separate houses where they are given more freedom. Most of the clones spend their last couple years in these houses before they are summoned to begin donating. Strangely, none of the clones attempt to counterattack any of this. They willfully follow all directions and accept what is told to them. The clones in
...es or finds a way to purposely enjoy solitude it has shown to have cognitive benefits, enhanced creativity and concentration. It has even shown that taking some alone time can result in lower rates of adolescent depression. All three articles shows that although being alone can be looked down upon as one not being not to social with others, depression, not being a team player, lack of self-esteem to be around others, not a people person, don’t enjoy company or too much company and so on. There is no such thing as too much alone time for an introvert and just because society belittles it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. Out in the world it is the survival of the fittest and people who can work at the full potential by themselves not requiring the recognition of others are more likely to succeed. Therefore, being able to enjoy extroversion can help one exceed in life.
Almost everyone in the world belongs to some group of individuals. For example, a sports team, school club, city, family, etc. It is fact that most people love the feeling when they enter a safe environment where they truly belong. Numerous people in the world want to belong to a group. Over time many populations have belonged to a group. So, what does the word belong really mean? The word gets lost or misunderstood in a lot of instances. To belong to a group means to be socially accepted, loved, and understood.
Choices, we make choices every day. Could you imagine if you could never make your own choices? That you never got to choose what you eat, what you wear, your own life full of choices? Could you imagine that life, it doesn’t sound like a real life, what is life without choices.
Have you ever wondered what happens if you don't have any friends? These two articles, "What are friends for? A longer life" and "How social Isolation is Killing Us" tells you why. The first article talks about examples on many different people having no friends and their side effects an example from the Isolation article is saying that getting a pet can cure your loneliness and depression. The second article talks about ways to not feel lonely like for example getting a pet. An example from the friend's article is stating that there is a woman that would rather be with her friends than her family.
Much of the research for this study, of course, focused on loneliness and the findings show that it is viewed in many diverse ways. Just to refresh readers’ memories, “loneliness is defined as perceived deficiencies in one’s ongoing relationships” (Jin & Park, 2012). This means that a person feels as if s/he does not have enough friends or that the friendships that s/he may have are not as fulfilling as might be desired. Jin and Park (2012) say that studies regularly find that people who describe themselves as lonely have problems with interpersonal communication. Other researchers describe loneliness as a “disturbing experience” that results from negative social skills, which includes problems with “interpersonal decoding skills,
Alienation can create the feeling of being worthless and forgotten. This is true of alienation as reflected through the quote, “I was naive and desperately lonely. I was locked in a room all by myself for days on end, and he was my only contact with the outside world. All I could do was survive and endure.” (Dugard 34).
When other people in life work hard and pour out their joy and excitement from their life to your own life then there is nothing else to do but soak up what is available. There is no happiness in loneliness and solitude, sometimes it may be nice to be alone in a quiet place to study or think, but too much of that wears down a person down into a selfish attitude of despair and bitterness. I have never heard of a happy bitter person, it’s just psychologically impossible. Just being around others who share the same interests, or the same faith or both allows you to benefit from their company and them from yours. Happiness comes from giving the overflow of your understanding and positive feelings to others. Helping them through difficult times or just hanging out over a period of time refreshes a person and allows them to forget or to see in another light the troubles that have been going on for so long. Without others around there is no way that a person can be happy and content with their
Fashion is one of those things that people can claim they don't care about. They can defend again and again that it doesn't matter what one wears, it's the person who wears it. But in all likelihood they will continue to be judged, as we all are, for the clothes on our body, the shoes on our feet and the hairstyle we are sporting.
By being completely withdrawn from social interactions and events, overtime this creates social isolation. Social isolation is when one spends an excessive amount of time alone, not talking to others, socialising with friends or extended family and avoiding contact with others as best as they can. Social isolation can worsen a person’s feelings of shame, low self-worth and loneliness. It is a common symptom and feature of depression.
Having a sense of belonging is a common experience. Belonging means acceptance as a member or part. It is such a simple word for huge concept. A sense of belonging is a human need, just like the need for food and shelter. Feeling that we belong is most important in seeing value in life and in coping with intensely painful emotions. From a psychological perspective, a sense of belonging is a basic human need, with many psychologists discussing this need as being at the level of importance of that as food, water, and shelter. A sense of belonging can be so powerful that it can create both value in life and the ability to learn healthy coping skills when experiencing intensive and
This is a comparative article regarding the two philosophers Descartes and Ryle. These two philosophers have very different view points and ideas about the mind and body; and the relation between the two.
If you are feeling unhappy frequently, then begin to socialize now. Do not wait until you feel better mentally and physically. While there are people who enjoy being more social than others, everyone needs to spend time talking to acquaintances and friends. Try to find something to do at least once a week to be around others. Many individuals find a way to combine a hobby such as reading that keeps them alone with a social group by creating a book club. Another way to socialize more often is by joining a religious or spiritual organization that meets at least one day a week.
The self is frequently regarded as a dream, the possibility that individuals are separate substances from each other and the world isn't