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Community: A Cure for the Lonely

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A community: otherwise a group of people who share common culture and heritage a populace, an alliance, an association, a neighborhood, a district, a society. A dictionary definition is what the population settles for as far as the context where they consider themselves as apart of a community. The word community in the 14th century, had derived from the word “common,” in that time, meaning fellowship in a ‘community’ of relations or feelings. However, the term then became used concretely as to pertain to a body of fellows or townsmen. It is vital though, that the youth involves themselves genuinely in a community, and not assume that they’ve done so simply by physically moving into one. Such a task means a challenge, however, through …show more content…

If the introversion that half of our population faces could be disregarded long enough to say “hello,” perhaps everyone could feel less alone in a town filled with thousands of people. Like an ant separated from its colony, the citizens of our youth can't benefit as strongly for themselves, until they come together and unify as a community. Once such unification has taken place, that youth can realize the warmth in the fact that they are not alone.

Much of the instant gratification granted to the youth via technology has them feeling much less alone than they are in reality, however, in that reality, they’re not aware of the amount of sincerity within the gratification which they can experience by helping others, and becoming aware that they’re a part of a whole. The youth of America faces too many opportunities to become distracted such as their cell phones or the Internet. If those wasting their time realized their potential impact when applied to a community, perhaps they would acknowledge that feeling of union, in its genuine sense, and desire less, to be apart of a superficial community. That superficiality has the youth feeling alone when they don’t understand why they’re feeling alone, however through physical response in their community, our nation’s young people will realize what true companionship is.

Unfortunately, not everyone in the youthful

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