Joining a community for me has always been kind of an uncomfortable experience. Community's can be anything from a group of friends to the place you work. When you are trying to join and new community, you are alway at least at first an outsider. There is the language and the inside jokes and weird quirks that are unique to that group of people. You are also never just let in, you have to earn the respect of the people making up the group. The people in the community have to get to know you and figure out who you are before you can be one of them. But that does not stop me from continuing to try and join communities. We have communities of people in our lives to support us and to help us and to bounce ideas off of. We all strive for interaction and other people in our lives. Also the befits once you are finally in a new community far outweigh the initial uncomfort. Communities are a huge part of what makes up who we are and the help us in so many ways.
This article is from about a year ago. It is about how we are biologically programed to seek out relationships and in the communities in our lives. From the moment we are born we have a attachment to our parents, but we also want to be with other people. From a biological standpoint this is so that if our parents die, we still have people in our lives to look to. The communities we create are to support our selves and so that we do not go through life by our selves, but with people all around us.
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