How does society affect you as a person?

Society is simply a social group of humans and that is all people think of when the word is mentioned. The only problem is that society is the very thing that makes us who we are and at the very same time, ruin our identity as individuals.

The people around us influences us whether we like it or not, and the term 'unique' is loosely thrown around when used to describe somebody. Everyone wants to be a part of the crowd and be noticed. To achieve that, we allow ourselves to change our behavior and the way we think in order to be recognized by others. When someone voices their opinion and it becomes acknowledged by a larger group of people, others start thinking the same way so they wouldn't be treated as outcasts for not agreeing with something that has become generally accepted. Everything from our choices in music to fashion and even our views on the world can be altered simply by the desire to fit in. We want other people to accept us and we believe for that to happen, we need to be just like them; just like everybody else.

As we grow up, we start changing into the people we see in our daily lives, be it in school or work, and most definitely in television. The way others act become an example for us to follow as we think that what they do is right. We start believing that we should try to adjust our lifestyles and behavior to transform ourselves into them so that people would acknowledge us like they do to those we idolize. We try to become what we think is 'normal' because we don't want to be anything different that will make use rejected by members of society. In the end, we are all affected the same way and we all start changing ourselves until our society becomes a whole with no such thing as individuality.