Community Life
I went to see the Emily Carr exhibit on Thursday night and there was one thing that struck me other than the beauty of the paintings. So many of the paintings showed community life for the native people from British Columbia, which really got to my heart. It's such a simple thing when you think about it, but so important for our survival.
In North American society, we have lost the idea of community. We all live in nuclear families with little or no connection to those around us. We choose to drive separate cars, live isolated lives, but we miss so much. We miss the support that comes from having family close by, the support of surviving together. We have stopped caring about each other.
The great thing about living in community is that you know people care about you. There are people who worry about you, people who support you. When you want to be alone, it can be hard to, but that's not the worst thing in the world. There is the biggest support system when you need and even when you don't. When you live in the same house, eat together and send nights together, community just tends to form and we end up living a life that we don't really expect to.
As much as we want to ignore the need for community, there is still a desire for it. We want to have people around when we need support, when we need someone to talk to, when we need someone to share a meal wth. We can try and survive on our own, without the community that we can have, but it never really works. We always seek those who will become our community, our family. And that's when we begin to have a much fuller life.


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