The whole 'living in a community' thing ...

Is it just me or is it true that some days just seem more chaotic than others?

The whole living in a Community thing is hard. Because in a community your life just does not effect you. It effects everybody else around you as well..and you have the ability to make or break someone elses day. Which often translates into not being a selfish individual. But not being selfish is really hard.

If i think really hard about it to not be selfish means to continually on a regular bases put the needs, wants, and desires of someone else before your own. Its to constantally do the things that a good parent does on a daily bases...but it's to do those things to not just for your kids and to your family but for all the people around you. To live in a community means to choose to act selflessly for the sake of those around you on a daily bases.

Wow, can that be difficult or what. I know i struggle with it at times, when i put aside the things i would like to do to go babysit for a wonderful family who deserves to have a quality babysitter everyonce and a while. Or to let my roommate have the dishes done the way that she likes them to be done, and to let her take the plant that i've enjoyed for the past two months off of the kitchen table.

However i think that the more that i keep the bigger picture in perspective the easier it is for me to be selfless. The more that i think about the fact that in a few simple acts of time or 'submissiveness' I can help encourage and refresh someone else's spirit. I can give back in some small way the same encouragement and refreshment that has been given to me. It makes living in a communtiy easier...knowing that others have given up time, love, personal preferances, and even money for your sake.

So yeah, the whole 'living in a community' thing can be really hard, but i couldn't imagine a better way to live life.