Michelle S. Lazurek/Movieguide Contributing Writer
We all need to belong. From tweeting your latest accomplishment on
Twitter to the local library’s book clubs, everyone wants to belong to
something, somewhere.
We believe it will bring value to our lives
and enrich it in such a way to make us better people. We learn this from
the time we are young children, hanging onto the schoolyard fence in
the hopes that maybe that popular group of people will look our way and
invite us to join their intimate clique. We transform our inner and
outward appearance so the people who are most worth our time deem us a
valuable part of their community.
Then we become adults. We throw
off the chains of high school life just to cross the threshold of
adulthood. We believe now we can become the real us, and we won’t have
to fake who we are in order to impress others around us.
Wrong. Adulthood forces us to address deeper questions regarding our identity:
What
if I never become a successful person in society? What if I never get
married? Is this all there is to life? What’s my purpose in life?
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