Definition - Shared; joint; belonging equally to; united.
The basis of the word community.
Community is who we are, how we’re supposed to be. It’s not about overcoming our differences; it’s about realizing that at our cores, we are all the same. Common. Not in the sense of average or less than superb, but as defined above – shared, united, belonging equally.
I chose the picture for this post purposefully. This man would be (is) certainly labeled common by society. I would call him common too. But for very different reasons. He is common with me. His name is Modesto, I worked with him last summer. He lives in a house with neighbors close by, he works hard, loves his family and does his best with what he has. Me too. I love how dirty his hands are. I wish mine were that dirty right now.
He may live in Mexico, myself in middle-America, and we may barely be able to communicate since we speak different languages, but Modesto and I are common.
I’m tired of people trying to segregate humanity. Our differences aren’t what are important. Our commonness is.
The basis of the word community.
Community is who we are, how we’re supposed to be. It’s not about overcoming our differences; it’s about realizing that at our cores, we are all the same. Common. Not in the sense of average or less than superb, but as defined above – shared, united, belonging equally.
I chose the picture for this post purposefully. This man would be (is) certainly labeled common by society. I would call him common too. But for very different reasons. He is common with me. His name is Modesto, I worked with him last summer. He lives in a house with neighbors close by, he works hard, loves his family and does his best with what he has. Me too. I love how dirty his hands are. I wish mine were that dirty right now.
He may live in Mexico, myself in middle-America, and we may barely be able to communicate since we speak different languages, but Modesto and I are common.
I’m tired of people trying to segregate humanity. Our differences aren’t what are important. Our commonness is.
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