It's Hard to Belong

“It’s hard to belong”
Belonging is a universal human experience, it involves belonging in a group in which the people have similar objectives, opinions and goals, as well as make you feel safe and relaxed. As humans, it is part of nature to want to be accepted. Each person on this planet is unique in different ways, and because of this some people find belonging easier than others. Ultimately, others are more easily accepted into group and whereas others are in a never-ending search to find a group, whether big or small, where they can express their opinions and interests.
In society, some people find it particular hard to belong. People get judged on everything, from their skin colour to choice of clothes and thus we are always being judged in our society. In our society there are millions of people, all of which are different. This means that not everyone will have to get along, though you feel as though you have to. There are many people who change themselves so they fit in but there are others who want to be accepted for who they are and not what others want them to be. Some people are lucky and fit into more than one of these groups while some who struggle fit into any, which is very uncommon. Things such as skin colour, religion, sexual preference can sometime make it difficult for a person to fit in. For example someone of Asian descent would unlikely to belong or feel like belonged in a group of white Europeans. If say there was an Asian in a European group, the Asian person might feel left out due to he or she being the only Asian in the group. This may lead to things such as racial abuse or the group being culturally insensitive. Sometimes, it may not be their fault that they can’t find anywhere where they feel belonging. Sometimes we are just judged based on our appearance and are stereotyped thus making it hard for us to belong to a group. All of us, as humans, may or may not have a set of different beliefs, but the important thing is to find a group