As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.
I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals?
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.
I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
One of the most important parts of my life has been community.