" What makes humanbeings come together but yet allows us to keep our individuality ' ?

I came across recently, an open question, " What makes humanbeings together, yet allows us to keep our individuality " ?

I begin my answer with a popular quote " It is an universal truth that birds of a feather flock together ". The flock, ofcourse, relates to company of animals or congregation and the word does not adjunct with humanbeings. But the evolution theory of humanspecies has a bearing but what sets apart the humanbeings as a class above the rest is their 6th sense, the power of thinking and computing.

As we trace back the history of humans, we learn that the true humans appeared around two million years ago. During ' Stone Age' , the humans led a barbaric and uncivilized life. Their speech was rude without fineness. They made fire by rubbing the stones. They lived in groups only. They had to protect themselves from the wild animals, storms and other natural calamities. Like the chimpanzees , humans also lived with their offspring.

As civilization progressed, co-existence became more prevalent. The Moslow's hygiene theory of " hierarchy of needs " viz (1) the basic needs, (2) the security needs, (3) the belonging needs, (4) the esteem needs and (5) the self actualizing needs explains why and how the humanbeings started living together. Human bonding is very sensitive and emotional. A man and a woman establish a bond through marriage and live together. A child born out of this bondage gets attached to the mother. The family interacts with the outside world for establishing a liveli-hood .

As we travel in a train, we become friendly with co-passengers. We shed our inhibitions and communicate with them to establish a temporary link. In a similar way, the human beings as long as they exist, interact with others as they derive satisfaction in keeping in touch with other human beings. Psychological and biological aspects are the causes for the chemistry of togetherness in human beings.

Human Kind has to interact with ' Time '. This they have to do for ' lifetime ' . ' Time ' is intangible and hence human kind has to interact with the outside world to make a living and to kill ' Time '. Coming together is the beginning, keeping in touch is progress and working together is success. The whole world can be viewed as an integrated family of humans.

" What allows us to keep our individuality " ?

An individual is an individual and can not be different. People may look alike , may be similar in nature but their mind is different. They may agree or concur on matters but still they act differently. Roger Federer remains always as Federer as No1, reigning Tennis hero. His game plans , ideas on the court, his self esteem and his individual qualities make him as a different individual. In other words, he keeps his individuality. He will not budge to go down in the ranking. But Federer's views abut the ball game of Tennis may be common to that of many.

Homi Baba is known as an individual for his scientific temper. Thomas Alwa Edison, Einstein are celebrated Scientists. We remember Mahatma Gandhi for his ' Non-violence ' and " Truth". Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar are better known as individuals holding cricketing records.

Like wise, all individuals have some quality in themselves for others to recognize and appreciate. We love our neighbors .We respect others because we respect their individuality. A child is possessive of his or her mother, possessive of his play dolls and so on. A child keeps his or her individuality and differs from other children of the same age. We can see boys fighting with each other to establish what they want and there is no end to site such examples.


In short, the family background, the society norms, the environment, the special qualities or attributes of a person are the factors that contribute to keep ones individuality.