Our neighborhood used to feel like a real community but over the past few years people have gotten more insular and suspicious of each other and now when something happens everyone just complains in the group chat instead of actually talking. I want to do something to bring people together but I also don't want to be the person who's trying too hard to force connection that maybe people don't actually want.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community is stuck between isolation and forced intimacy, needing someone to model authentic engagement without demanding it.
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