Grouping; a set of associated people acting together. Is this what we really want? Where we go where it goes, where we eat what it eats, where we wear what it wears. Is that what we truly want? To be part of group?
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Group promises to help us meet all our needs: it promises to protect us, that with it, no one can harm us, that with it, we are safe. Group promises to give us an affiliation, that with it, we have an identity we may be associated as a member of it, that we may have specific descriptions that are accruing from it.
Group promises us growth, that it will work with us to help attain our goals, that it will gather people for us, people that will be committed to help us reach our goal. Group promises us strength, it describes us as a broom stick, which has no strength and can be easily broken, but when we join it, we are no longer a broom stick but a whole force that cannot be broken easily.
Grouping has indeed worked hard to try to keep some of it promises, but then, grouping is not perfect, it has it shortcomings. Grouping which promises to protect may be able to keep this promise from those outside the group; but who keeps us safe from those in the group, those that will not rest until we are hurt, those that are a total mask of their inner self. The law you say?, but most times, the law comes in only after we have been hurt, do we choose grouping at this point? It promises us an affiliation, but then, an affiliation to it may be a criterion that is used to discriminate against us. Grouping promises us growth, but then, if our goals do not tally with group, then we are on our own.
Why do we have to be grouped, why can we not just be people without groups; this reasoning is not realistic though, because no matter how much we want to be seen as a whole, we will still place each other in a group. It is impossible not to be placed in one groups or the other, we are either placed by things we have no control of, things like our skin colour, and our family, or we may be placed by things we have control over like our education and social status.
Grouping is not a human idea; it has always been there even before we existed, it is a part of nature. Although we have made it a more complex phenomenon.
Written by Ola Sanya.
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