Unity

Aryan Mukherjee

If one man alone could rule the world, the Earth would be in crumbles. People have always thought that if they alone, push themselves to their very core striving after an outcome, that outcome, one way or another, will be beckoned towards them. However, while their excruciating efforts are at work trying to lift mountains, the rest of society has already finished the task, one hill at a time. Isolation and self-reliance are two concepts drawn close by their borders to us humans, yet crossing the line self sacrifices one of the most crucial concepts people pick up along the way: unity.

To me, unity simply means the comfort and expansion of another’s company, and the more expendability you can have with others while still working in unison, the greater and more harmonious the results of such unity will be. Simply put, unity means being perched there alone, in the rain, your own reflection taunting you in a puddle of your own tears, while your friends, your companions and your comrades, all work desperately to give you a helping hand and find an umbrella, to be the umbrella. Unity means understanding that nobody is going to exactly agree with everything you have to offer, yet we all must thrive off of each other and piece together each and every part of the puzzle we have to offer, rubbing out the flaws and assembling, in the end, a masterpiece. Most importantly, unity is simply being there, together, at school, work, or anywhere you can, and crawling deeper into the ditch with the rest of your community, feeling safe in their embraces.

After all, this once unfathomable concept is merely the “nitty”-gritties in “u”, coming together to form “u-nitty”. 

Thus, it is up to us, community by community, to understand that we all depend solely on each other to flicker a light up in our face when we are fading out into the darkness, and to work together, through the hardest of times and the worst of pandemics, in order to overcome any hurdle our way, and thrive from it. My only wish for our community now is to relinquish our selfish acts upon society, and to be just a little more giving, day by day, to each and every person we meet.