Community and Responsibility

Community and Responsibility are 2 words I have heard a lot this week. They really got me thinking about how they apply to my life as a whole. And well, they do and they don't. Both words can take on so many meanings depending on a person and some may not fit with others.

Community to me is a strong tight knit group of friends who have each others backs. One falls down, the rest jump in to help them back up. My community is made up of my girlfriend, my close family and some friends. Sadly though over the last week or so, my community has been struck with hardship. Friends turning on friends, friends canceling life altering plans and family's fighting. I think most people have forgotten the community they are in, and instead put themselves above it all. My community is crumbling around me, but a new tighter knit one is forming from the rubble.

Now, responsibility is a big thing. Every kid wants responsibility. They want to be trusted with something. But once you get older, you want nothing to do with it. You want nothing to do with taking the blame for your own actions. Sadly if you don't notice, this hurts the ones around you. You can not just leave the problems you created for someone else to pick up.

Then, for me there is something in between, communal responsibility. You take responsibility for not just your own actions, but those of the whole community  Ones failure becomes your own, ones success becomes you're success story. You take not just your personal actions onto you anymore. This is what builds a strong group in my opinion.

So, today was just a rant day for me, I have been having some trouble with some friends and some community members, and this is really just to get my point of view across.

I might be taking a trip in a few weeks to go visit some places for our move, so I was thinking on top of the normal daily post I would add in a Vlog of the drive or maybe just a look around the area. Something a little extra.

~RZN