A community can be defined as a feeling of communion with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals. While each community differs from the next, each has a common basis in tradition and standards. In fact, it is tradition and behavioral norms that unite a community to create a sense of stability. After all, stability is the inevitable quality that unites a community. This imperative factor is indeed what is being investigated in a hopeless quest to find the true meaning of community and its gravitational pull on humanity. The hypothesis that a community, in essence, conveys a sense of stability can be refuted in three key limitations. Relying too much on one's faith on tradition and community standards can lead to the ultimate dissolution of a community's health. Furthermore, dwelling on the act of maintaining the tradition and standards of that community can lead to the downfall of one's being and individuality. To the detriment of the community as a whole, proceeding to maintain these traditions and standards is at least ideal, as values ​​and traditions are ever-evolving and very often obsolete in future composition. In excerpts from Garrison Keillor's “A Wobegon Holiday Lunch,” John Hostetler's “The Amish Charter,” and David Berreby's “It Takes a Tribe,” the limitations of the assumption that communities provide a sense of stability are refuted on the basis of tradition and of social standards. In “A Wobegon Holiday Lunch,” Keillor describes both the present-day reality of family Thanksgiving and his family's past history of Thanksgiving. Each circumstance, in today's holidays, is unthinkably different from the next, while... in the middle of the paper... it is in fact when an individual has this boisterous desire to do everything to fit into a situation they model for stability, and in reality they are unstable individuals. This community is not characterized by tradition and standards, but is just a clandestine mold underneath it all. A community does not provide a sense of stability at all but in retrospect just the opposite. Stability is not belonging or a community but true individuality and adherence to one's identity. In excerpts from "A Wobegon Holiday Lunch" by Garrison Keillor, "The Amish Charter" by John Hostetler, and "It Takes a Tribe" by David Berreby, it is shown that traditions and social standards only sacrifice individuality and threaten stability . The world is constantly evolving and so are its paradigms. The only community that will provide stability is that of the individual's self.