Sunday 5 October 2008

what is a community?


To me, community simply means a group of people joined together by their place of residence, but what does a community represent?...
  • togetherness
  • love
  • strength
  • protection
  • maybe at times, isolation

i have realised that a community is more than just a group of people that live within close proximity of each other, it completely defines you! I am a part of many communities, each one holding a little element of my personality; sub-consciously, i am who i am because of my community.

1 comment:

Mark Griffin said...

Well doen for getting up and started Kirsty.

I'm very interested in your comment about isolation. Community as a concept is often seen as wholly positive, but there are difficult questions about exclusion and coercion which are alsways worth thinking about when considering the value of any given community.

Mark