ABSTRACT
In this essay I am going to present a personal case that mirrors the whole system. Can a personal case be somehow representative of a certain society? At first glance, this is a difficult question since every individual is characterized by idiosyncratic features and is a microcosm of ideas and feelings. Society, however, is not a mechanical sum of people; it also has its laws and modes of living—it can both support the individual, encouraging his or her happiness and well-being, and easily kill a person. In Bulgaria for the forty-five years of communist rule, people were taught to exclude the individual and adore the group. Therefore, by exploring the relations between the individual and the society, we can define every person/individual case as representative, too.
