But deep down I felt something was not right. I was doing what I thought was the right thing to do. Then I happen to wonder where the benefits I drew from the community were coming from? I delved deeper into my thoughts. I got more curious. I was baffled by my own questions. I always got what I wanted, but how? Where was all this coming from? I peeped deeper till I almost bend double and could stretch no more.
It all dawned on me. There were people just like me who were busy putting things together for me. They were just like me. While they worked hard, I sat back and kept demanding. I pushed it to them to find solutions to the problems that I created. I realized for the very first time that the Community is part of me. I am the Community. I make the community. You and me make the community. We make the community.
Suddenly I felt so strong, so useful and so important. I realized my responsibilities. How much rests on my shoulders. How much there is for me to catch up on. What a difference I can make!
I wanted to do my job of being helpful. I wanted to build the community. But I couldn't figure out how? How do I build the community? Of course just like how you build a house. A Community is like a house 🏡. But the house 🏡 is not just an empty structure. What about the rooms, kitchen, bathrooms and it's many other segments ? Yes! Got it now! I have to get in the house 🏡 to actually build a house 🏡. Here is what I discovered. To build a community, just like to build a 🏠, you have to be inside the 🏠, similarly, you have to be in the community. We cannot distance ourselves from the community and build the community at the same time. Not possible! No way! Let's get in. Let us bring the community inside of ourselves. Let us make the community part of us before we can call it home 🏡.
And that is how we build ourselves. Build a community and thereby build yourself. It is simply not possible to build yourself in a broken Community. Our selfishness of just building ourselves and neglecting the community will one day shatter everything that we have built and we will be back in the community seeking help from a source where we deposited nothing. What can we expect from there? Should we even be expecting anything? Something to think about. Right?
When we help build a community, we are home. We have built a dwelling for ourselves while trying to accommodate others. Here lies the comfort and happiness.
It took me a very long time to realize that I am not part of the community, but the community is part of me. I play a very important part in the community. Funny eh?
