Are You Blind?

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Are You Blind?
Some people work all their lives to make others like the person that they are trying to be. There are many organizations whose purpose is simply to bring individuals who otherwise would not have acceptance anywhere else together. Many individuals may not have any other type of acceptance anywhere and take social groups with a great seriousness. The desire of being wanted is not harmful. The extent of someone’s desire and the blindness that this certain desire may cause could be very strong that it could be harmful.
Boy Scouts teaches you to start fires and how to tie knots. Girl Scouts teaches you the power of team work when you are selling cookies. When you join a group there is something that you learn on the surface but there are also things that you learn subconsciously. The feeling of belonging also comes with these groups, and at an early age we all begin to feel that we want to be liked. I will be exploring a certain church group whose name and religion at no point will I mention. We will see how people come into “The right path” and how they remain on it, and all of this is simply with that power of wanting to be wanted.
I “belonged” to the group from the time that I was born until I was about seventeen years of age. This certain church group was composed of different social classes. Some of the church members drove BMWs and on the other side of the spectrum people who didn’t have anything to wear. When someone feels like they are welcomed they like what they feel and try to a certain extent to keep that feeling the longest possible amount of time. If you think about it, feeling like you are wanted is the basis of a lot of things. In a restaurant when you are greeted with a smile you instantly set the tone for the rest of your experience at that restaurant. When you walk into a store and you receive help as soon as you need it you return to that store again and again. Now imagine the feel...