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... shows it’s more than apparent that our society is deeply in love with our “wants”. ...
It seems as though there is an increasing contradiction in American society that almost pleads with people to create this façade of an American dream with both the perfect mate, spouse, or lover and the need to be your own individual. ... Out society is based heavily on family and it begins to be ground into our heads at a very young age, that one day, you too will have a family. ... Society even goes as far as make them look funny or strange in the eyes of others for not having found someone. ... But society goes out of there way to make it apparent that not being with someone is wrong. ... It’s what is expected of you and so it becomes a taboo in American society to remain single. ... These questions seem to lead to a familiar incidence of singles putting undo pressure on themselves to find that someone in order to be “normal”. ...
The Third Wheel
Every Monday night my wife and I get together with two other couples and their children. ... Each of the couples has a mutual friend, Ryan. ... Have they made him feel that awkward in society that he cannot see his friends on a Monday night merely because he doesn’t have a partner and the rest of us do? ... And it seems like he feels he is the third wheel to our couples. ... Strangely enough it seems as though there is a reverse discrimination of sorts for couples when faced with their single friends. Yet all these singles want what you have, a partner, don’t they? ... Is this conflicting situation built upon society just a product of misconstructions? ... Ivy and Backlund see this idea of autonomy vs. ... Because of its deep embedded ness with our social structures, society has been able to play with its interpretations. ... Schultz and Rodgers see this as the primary reason for doing anything in society. Your race to give yourself identity and autonomy is merely a way to be seen as normal; to be accepted and feel a sense of belonging to society. ...
“Our need for belonging, love and acceptance derives from our nature as social creatures; it is what brings us into the human community. We achieve a sense of belonging by participating, along with other members of our society, in a common way or life that includes at least a common language, a more or less common view of the world and a more or less established social structure. ... This need for belonging, love and, most importantly, acceptance is what brings about all the other issues related to this idea of autonomy vs. ... We as people are only truly only trying to fit in, be normal and accepted by society. ... By looking at who we are in a better light we feel as if we are normal and up to par by society’s standards. ... These people feel that it is more important to be accepted by society than by an individual. The phone calls stopped coming because I had found my acceptance while my friends had not.
Approximate Word count = 2581
Approximate Pages = 10.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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