Now more than ever, we need each other.
Building community is tough, but it might be the most important hard thing most of us do. There are so many reasons to build community, whether that's on your block, in your neighborhood, with people who share interests, beliefs, or life circumstances, or with people who you might not otherwise connect with. Be it in-person, online, or through the mail, the stronger your web of social connections the better off you'll all be together, points out Faith G. Harper, author of bestselling books like Unfuck Your Brain and Unfuck Your Adulting. Sharing food with your neighbors, fighting together for a cause you all care about, or just goofing off and enjoying each others' company, community makes us stronger than the sum of our parts and has all sorts of benefits to our health, mental health, and making the world less awful.
Being a good community member and builder is a skill anyone can learn. Whoever you are, whatever your life is like, there's a world of people out there to connect with.