Looking outward

Although I have lived with other people before, I have never lived in a community like Earlwood. It's been a very enlightening experience and as I sit here now, holding down the fort alone while everyone is off traveling, I'm realizing that it's much more than someone to welcome you when you come home. Living in a community that shares and exchanges skills and knowledge helps me focus on the things I know and can teach to others. I'm not asking myself "what don't I have" but rather "what do I have?" I find this is a fundamentally more fulfilling and happy mindset to have and I've found that I have quite a lot to share. I think people are inherently hungry for knowledge and being able to work and live in a community allows for that hunger to be satisfied everyday. Whether it's simply seeing a task done in a different way or having a deep and enlightening conversation about our life purpose, the community allows those things to happen in a very natural way. It's about being compassionate and caring. Compassion for my community has brought happiness to myself. Compassion for the people around me, for my friends, for my family, for the environment and for the world has also brought happiness. It's something that is easy to write but much harder to live.