A person is identified by what makes he or she different from others, his or her individuality. Only through individuality can a person be set apart from others; individuals are remembered throughout history for what set them apart, not how they are similar to another. Individuality may seem like an easy task to accomplish, but in truth it is one of the hardest things to accomplish in life, a view also shared by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment,” Individuality is the greatest accomplishment in life due the the sheer odds against an individual and the number of outside forces trying to influence him or her. Individuality is like talent; everybody has the ability to make use of it, but rarely anybody ever takes advantage of it. Since the dawn of history, those who are remembered are those who dared to be individual, those who worked against society and the odds to be themselves. Julius Caesar is remembered from history as a dictator of Rome, but he became what he did because he wasn’t like other people, he was different, he was individual. Caesar was remembered out of the fifty million people living in Rome. Most inhabitants of Rome have been long since forgotten, but against the odds he was remembered. But why do …show more content…
The amount of strength and determination required to be individual is immeasurable, and only through lifelong strife can a person ever hope to achieve the strength possible for this feat. For somebody to become individual, not only will a person have to overcome the chains of society as a whole, but also the odds placed against them by the human species as whole. Once a person overcomes these challenges, only then can he or she be remembered as a Julius Caesar, or a Susan B. Anthony, or a Bill Clinton, only then can they be remembered as an