Man, this piece ends with an ouch. I feel this tension between convenience and feeling untethered regularly, and sometimes I find I make decision to purposely be a Luddite and sometimes I give in and try to take in the firehose that is modern life. There's just so much stuff to enjoy (and much of it worthwhile, though obviously much that's not)!
This plays out a little differently in rural communities like the one I live in. Folks are still interconnected and more and more are being disconnected from each other, but currently there's still an okay sense of community. I'm finding that it's shrinking, though, and mostly is made up of family (if your family lives around you) or people that might as well be family because you've known them forever. There are also tribes that pop up with non-family members (usually around kids/school/sports), but I don't find them as close as they were in the past. In most cases, I know a lot less about my neighbors (the ones that aren't family) if I know them at all - there's a lot less porch/yard culture than I remember growing up.
Man, this piece ends with an ouch. I feel this tension between convenience and feeling untethered regularly, and sometimes I find I make decision to purposely be a Luddite and sometimes I give in and try to take in the firehose that is modern life. There's just so much stuff to enjoy (and much of it worthwhile, though obviously much that's not)!
This plays out a little differently in rural communities like the one I live in. Folks are still interconnected and more and more are being disconnected from each other, but currently there's still an okay sense of community. I'm finding that it's shrinking, though, and mostly is made up of family (if your family lives around you) or people that might as well be family because you've known them forever. There are also tribes that pop up with non-family members (usually around kids/school/sports), but I don't find them as close as they were in the past. In most cases, I know a lot less about my neighbors (the ones that aren't family) if I know them at all - there's a lot less porch/yard culture than I remember growing up.