Community is about groups of people who respect, love and care for each other. Community members will stick together and stay strong through thick and thin to achieve a common goal, to help a member achieve greatness, or to resolve their own conflicts with life and its cruelties. The purpose of a community is to provide information about one's social view of life and what will never be known after death. Having a community can strengthen your social bonds, self-esteem and self-realization. While community is the overall harmony of one's friends or family, in that community there is no one greater than oneself; the individual is the strongest. Community members – individuals and their personalities – are what make the community what it is. If there was no one to form the group, where is that group? The group would never have existed and there would have been no community. The human body also functions as a community, with each individual atom creating cells that flow through the veins to make the system work. Humans are just like cells, and as each individual creature (plant or animal, living or dead) goes through the cycle of life and death, new communities will be created since old ones never truly die. It is the individual's responsibility to keep the community alive in at least one way and never change it. There is no fixed description that the individual must follow, or whatever quality he or she must possess; the only factor they need is to have existed. For someone, existence might mean being the most popular kid in school, for another it might mean being born. Henry David Thoreau, to find his existence, went “into the woods” so that he could “live deliberately, to face only the essential ago… in the center of the paper… world in his own eyes. Some see the good in the world, while others believe the world is a death trap full of lies and deception. Some people want to provide answers to continue and shape themselves, while others are happy with how they are. The trick of being an individual is to just let whatever happens happen and not try to change it. The beginning is how you are seen and that view will not change. The individual will forever keep their mark on the community and keep the place running, as it should. The individual is the ruler of the community. Works Cited Chast, Roz. "The Last Thanksgiving." 2012: 358.Gladwell, Malcolm. “Small Change: Why the Revolution Won't Be Tweeted.” 2010: 347. Goodman, Ellen. “The family that extends (together).” 1983: 315.Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I lived and what I lived for." 1854: 296.