community

To be human is to belong. We were literally born in community, attached to someone else.

Radha Agrawal • Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life

Our identities, while obviously unique to us, are so shaped by the influence and power of community that it remains a biologically human need to have a group, to form those meaningful relationships and use communities to enrich our lives in ways isolation cannot. We need community to feel alive. Without it, we are lost.

I’m not self-made I’m village-made

u're not lonely bc u lack community, u're lonely bc u're not willing to work to maintain community community isn't an ambient vibe u passively absorb - it's the accumulated weight of showing up&caring for others, even when not totally feelin it ppl keep reversing the causality

orph x.com

“It takes a village to raise a child”

Lisa DeAngelis • Embracing the Unknown: Exploring the Pathways to Change

maybe you're lonely because you're fundamentally broken or maybe it's because we spent the last 70 years dismantling social structures that took centuries to develop and we haven't replaced them with anything yet

Richard D. Bartlett x.com

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