'Community':
With what's been happening with me being targeted recently for not being willing to tolerate disrespect and abuse, the term community has been on my mind an awful lot.
What is a community and what does it mean?
A common unit/common unity?
Why are some people in a community so quick to attack or be abusive under the guise of 'doing good'?
Why don't we have such decent communities anymore?
Why are people fueled by hate more?
And a meme I saw made me think even harder about it, as I'm someone whose been there before, seeking help and been met with abuse or disrespect or worse for being vulnerable, for seeking help.
This needs to stop.
Everyone deserves help when they're struggling.
I thought about how I personally defined community, what is a community to me?
Community is about being there for your fellow neighbors, whether you can stand them or not.
It's about pulling people out of their darkest places on their darkest days without doing it for the sole purposes of bragging, but simply cause you care.
It's about being able to think about others as well as yourself and accept that even when you don't see eye to eye with someone, you make the active choice to help for helpings sake, Especially if you don't see eye to eye with them, stay kind.
Never use excuses to bring people down or be unhelpful or disrespectful, instead use that energy to do something good for someone with the sole intentions of nothing other than, you could help.
Without community stepping in there'd be way more segregation and isolation and that's already bad for the disabled and elderly anyway.
If you want to help someone, and you can help someone you should, but doing good deeds doesn't excuse anyone of any negative, derogatory or malicious behaviour.
I'm not for everyone and I wouldn't want to be, but respect and thoughtful communication is key when it comes to a successful and helpful society.
Be a safe space today instead of a pain in someone's backside.
Be the rose and not the thorns, You may actually like it.
Feeling useful yet?
You may find your life turned upside down one day and you'll be thankful and grateful to have such a community, so please try and be an asset instead of a troll or burden. Life's hard enough. Innit.
S.
@Kawaii Doll Decora 🩷 xx
#foodforthought
#discussion
#society
#community
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"When you wonder why someone lives in pain without ever reaching out, I hope you can look back to see they reached out a hundred times, and no one reached back. -Stephanie bennett- Henry."
