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The Importance Of Community Satisfaction Or Personal Happiness

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In these short mortal lives, what matters more, community satisfaction or personal happiness? Any average human might say community satisfaction as that is the most logical choice of our nature. Humans by instinct are social creatures and of course we’d want to satisfy our community for the greater good, even if that means sacrificing a personal happiness as to keep that socialization as positive as possible. But what about us? What about my own satisfaction? Don’t I matter enough to be happy? Our lives are consistently filled with choices and even specifically, this moral dilemma. We are faced with two choices; “selfish” satisfaction or “conformist” compromise and it’s plagued our minds for generations. I have personally dealt with this issue as I’ve grown in this world. With nothing but a phrase repeated throughout my childhood I was sent on a self-analytical journey that would change me forever and was forced to deal with a personal fork in my road that lead to absolutely opposite outcomes. “You’re so smart. You should be a scientist.” he complimented with such naive conviction unaware of what he had just done. That was the first time I heard that phrase but definitely not the last and it had stuck with me. It's actually pretty funny how many times I heard that exact phrase repeated by completely different people. What’re the odds? Consistently, I heard kid after kid say that to me and from the very first time I heard it I begin to question my purpose in this world.

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