How Do You Define Your Communities?

A community can take many forms but is frequently a source of comfort and support.

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You live in a community of some sort or other. It might be the nation you call home, or state, city, town, village, or even local neighborhood. But this usually is a general notion and not YOUR community.

Your community is the people who you call friends and family. Chances are, you may even have more than one community. This is important to find and be a part of because community is a resource for both familiarity and possibility as you work out your personal development in whatever form that takes.

What is a community?

There are several definitions of community. For the most literal, let’s turn to dictionary.com:

Community — (noun)

1. a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.

2. a locality inhabited by such a group.

3. a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists (usually preceded by the)

4. a group of associated nations…