I think this is an important point. Recently I was reading a post that talked about how one belongs to a community. Which on one hand means you are accepted and

I think this is an important point. Recently I was reading a post that talked about how one belongs to a community. Which on one hand means you are accepted and identify with it, but also that the community has a claim back upon you. People within that community depend on each other and that dependencies offers opportunity to connect more deeply. In the article he blocks out a longer excerpt from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, with this bolded bit: > Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-convivial-society-no-4 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-convivial-soc...