“Community is also an insurance policy against life’s cruelty; a kind of immunity against loss and disappointment and rage. My community will be here for my family if I cannot be. And if I die, my kids will be surrounded people who know and love them, quirks and warts and oddities and all.”
It’s possible the most vital success metric to our lives is one which we increasingly overlook.
Jenny Anderson suggests community is the most important success metric and examines why we increasingly have less of it in our lives than we used to (fyi, social media community is NOT the same as human contact).
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