Hokey pokey

"You put your right hand in, you put your right hand out, you put your right hand in, and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself about. That's what it's all about!"

I had an insightful conversation with a colleague of mine. We were talking about communities that we create for ourselves, and communities that we create with others. Sometimes we join communities that we think we will fit into. We join because we have the same goal, believe in the same doctrine, or for lack of a better description (after a night shift) "walk the same walk".

But sometimes within these communities, we still feel like we don't belong. I don't know why. Maybe participating in the community requires work that isn't tangible enough for us, or requires too much time, or ... well... we just plain don't like the people in it. For some reason, we are just not able to or not interested to get enthusiastic in participating with the rest of the group.

Most of the time that's ok! :D

I say this because: most of the time we can choose to find another community with the "same goal, believe in the same doctrine, or for lack of a better description "walk the same walk"". That's sort of the brilliance of being part of a community of 7 billion. 7 BILLION!

(well one could argue it's a problem... and we're a pestilence on the planet and how sustainability is increasingly more important and difficult and how we're all going belly up w/ too much fat and not enough sustenance ...etc.) <- proof of how quickly I can digress from a topic.

Unfortunately for the bracketed world view... as pessimistically "realist" as it might be...

I happen to be FOOLISHLY optimistic.

I say that, for those enough lucky enough to choose the communities we belong to and communities we create for ourselves. I'd like to say that there are enough groups of people interested in the same things that we can create our own niches and people we feel comfortable in.

Sure, 7 billion is a huge number, but when it gets broken down... A global village is just a village :)


sidenote: kudos to whoever was lyrically genious enough to rhyme "in" with "in" and "out" with "about" three times :P