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Community is amazing, finding the balance between what we give and take is hard.
Community can help us find ourselves.
Explore ourselves as individuals.
Whilst also discovering new worlds through community rabbit holes.
We build upon and are inspired by conversations and ideas shared.
What we create may be individualistic, but often it is the result of many community interactions.
Community can also take us in directions we donât want to go.
We get sucked into other peopleâs agenda without realising what we may lose.
We do work that isnât true to ourselves, often on realising when we take the time to retreat from community.
Itâs easy to get lost and confused.
To find our compass, we must take the time to internally address our individual needs.
Community has no boundaries.
We build communities with rules, visions and guidelines.
We build like there are clear boundaries.
The reality is when conversations fly around everywhere, who are we to set the boundaries?
We cannot control the community interactions and where they may fly to.
And we are a product of everything that surrounds us.
Living as Communion
This post is inspired by what Henrik Karlsson wrote in Writing as Communion. He writes from a âwritingâ perspective, but the same principles apply to how we can generally live as human beingsâŠ
I think of this way of writing as âcommunal,â and I partly view what I do on my blog in this way. Much of what I write (including this) is prompted by questions that others ask me, and the input that feeds my creative process often comes from people Iâve met through the blogâbook recommendations I get sent, friends Iâve made, comments, and critiques that forces me to sharpen my thinking.
But as much as I love this communal aspect of writing, it is also something that I have come to fear. Love and fear: these two feelings coexist in my heart.
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