Family is a place where an individual is first born. It is in the family that each and every individual learns how to walk, how to talk and how to behave. An individual’s personality truly reflects how he or she has been brought up by their families.
In essence, a family is responsible for rearing and tearing of a child. Society is the surroundings in which an individual learns how to co-operate with people who are not blood relatives, an individual learns only in the society what friendship is all about. It is essential for every human- being to be involved with the society because man is a social- being. It is impossible for a human-being to live outside a society and if an individual does so, he or she is either above or below humanity. It is impossible to stay happy both internally and externally without co- operating with the society we live in. family and society are actually inter- twined, they are two sides of the same coin.
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Initial development of an individual certainly takes place in family but when a child is 4- 5 years of age, his or her personality starts shaping according to the society.
What is essential to understand is that an individual can never stay happy when detached from the society in the similar manner that an individual cannot stay without his or her family.
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Society prepares an individual to stand out and face all the challenges that the world poses. It can be truly stated that a man lives for the society. Is it possible to be satisfied merely by the appreciation of family members? No it is not. An individual is truly satisfied only when the society as a whole recognizes his or her merits.
As an individual approaches adolescence societal influence, appreciation and acceptance is what matters the most for an individual. If the members of the society accept the individual the confidence level of that particular individual rises to phenomenal heights. The adverse also holds true. If an individual is not accepted by a society, he or she feels unwanted and such individuals are in most of the cases found withdrawn and depressed.
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Today, life is so busy that an individual sometimes cannot give sufficient time to his or her family. Giving time to the society is therefore all the more difficult. But the sooner an individual understands that he or she needs to maintain a balance between family life and social life, the better.
It is also essential to understand that it is equally important to follow the rules and regulations of the society as much as it is important to follow the rules and regulations in one’s family and workplace. If family is the blood of an individual, society is certainly the flesh.