Belonging Case

leave us open to pain as our true sense of “who we are” is destroyed.

Again, belonging is a thing of beauty, but it can be destructive. As Maslow said, it reveals that the need to belonging roles an important part, it places somewhere in the middle part, it’s important, it’s a whole part and it’s necessary. But somehow, in the end, it’s that self is important, self-realisation. It’s not the say that belong is not important, it has major role, but somehow, our real self is your identity, yourself which Maslow reveal self at the top part.

In the other words, Walt Whitman says “ I celebrate myself, I sing myself” are a forceful reminder of the need for us to come a true understanding of what it is about ourselves that is worth standing up for, that’s worth the struggle to belong. As long as we are confident with ourselves, remain our identity, and then we will belong someplace.

Indeed, everyone have their own identities and everyone needs the sense of belonging. It can turn to bad way or it can turn to good way, it can lead you to discover things that you’ve never known or it can destroys your true sense of “who you are”. It all depends all how you deal with it and how you really are in belonging to a group.

become something important, which cannot happen without the group. The group provides them a huge boost in which they gain more confidence and belief in achieving their dream as their dreams are supported by the group we choose to belong. Clearly belonging to a group helps to develop your ability and make you more determined in what you do, in the process making you realize that you are more important then what you think you are.

On the other hand, the group we reject tell us much about ourselves in term of what we dislike. When we reject to join in a group, this is may be because our values and beliefs are in conflict with theirs. The poem “St. Patrick’s College” emphasizes how the poet chooses not to belong to a religious school where his mother wants him to go to .Throughout the poem, Skrzynecki repeats “for eight years” twice. This reflects his stresses for staying at a place where he doesn’t feel belonging for too long. “Like a foreign tourist,” he exposes the fact that he feels like a stranger to the school even though he has been there for a long time, the fact that he is not a part of this school for even one day. He couldn’t find any sense of belonging in this place and he created his own personality in a different way the school wants him to be. His choice of not belonging is shown clearly with the fact that he wants education, not religion, this clearly forms his own identity.

However we may have difficulty keeping balance between belonging to a group and remain our individual identity. I believe that individuals who are members of an isolated group in society tend to separate themselves from the