Deeply Committed?

"If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love." -Page 164 in 1984 by George Orwell

If ever I had to indebt my entire self, my entire being, to defend a certain cause, it would have to be a cause towards protecting everyone's individuality. To have a unique personality, which we all have the potential to hold, is something that is very precious. It is what separates your best-friend from a complete stranger, your teacher from your employer, your lover from your worst enemy. Individuality gives us all a reason to live the diverse lives we were put here to fulfill. If there was ever someone to jeopardize the individuality we all own, we would not just be facing personal attacks; we would be facing a war against our family, our friends, our acquaintances, our own strangers. All of your loved ones and all of the people you can potentially love one day would face a battle of conformity against rarity. Upholding everyone's intimate character is a cause that I would (most likely) find myself deeply committed to and worth defending.

Within some parameters, it is likely I would not defend one's defining character. In the event that someone's individuality leads them to do cruel things to other people and their stability, then I would not be an advocate to preserve their character. For example, the best historic person that I would apply this theory to is Hitler. Although everyone has defining qualities to his or her own personality, and most of the time those qualities are crucial and important, it crosses a line when someone's identity conflicts with letting someone be entitled to their identity. It is against these people, though, that I would be willing to put what I have on the line in order to fight against said people. Violence, on a Holocaust scale, is a saboteur's way to steal the identity from an individual by either wiping it out completely or forcing that person to act and think a certain way. In the likelihood of this event, I do find myself willing to sacrifice personally in order to help the greater good or possibly my own self in the event that my beliefs were targeted.

Nonetheless, though, a quality in people that I find myself deeply committed to preserving is that of the identity. If we ever wind up in a state where the individual, the me inside all of us is threatened, what else is there worth fighting for? If someone is attempting to fraud our uniqueness or force us to become one in the same as the person next to us, what more would be worth fighting than who we are? When you lose your individuality or it becomes threatened, what other point is there in living if your not standing up for that one things that instills livelihood in you?

The quote above mentions the far intimate reaches of love which is important when discussing to what extent you would protect the person you are or the individual inside of the person next to you. If you truly do love someone, you love them for their originality. You love them because the way that they make you feel is different from the way someone else makes you feel. If and when this essence of love does occur inside of you, like Orwell, said you would still give him love if you had nothing else to give if it came down to it. To me, to give love would be to be there for them even if no one is there for you, giving them the last morsel of food even if it means going hungry, and protecting them and giving them legs to stand on even if their wobbly. If someone was to attack your loved one's existence, their singularity; you would be the first one that shows up as a soldier to try to harbor their being.

In conclusion, so long as someone's character does not entail tormenting another person's individuality, I think the components that mold someone's distinctiveness are causes worth fighting and sacrificing for. If we love ourselves and respect our own values, then we would not think twice about defending the person inside of us that creates the reason to keep waking up everyday. And when you also begin to feel that love for your mother, father, sister, brother, lover, friend, etc. is when you realize that you would do anything in order to protect and instill the person in them that makes them so unique. And then finally if you are capable of realizing how crucial it is for everyone to have a personal identity, then maybe even when someone attack's a simple neighbor's, or stranger, or even an enemy's identity; you may also find yourself jumping to defend them because you realize that everyone is entitled to their beliefs and it is important to stand up for the individual in all of us.