Anything worth doing takes effort. It also takes time. Community takes both as well. Community also seems to happen during our “off time” – after work, on the weekend, in the evenings, during our breaks – when a very high priority is to “Just say no.” We are working so hard, feeling the stress & pressure, sorting out all the changes in life, that when the breaks come, we want to say no.
Somewhere along the way, I started willing myself to just say yes – don’t think it through, if it involves community, say yes first then figure out if I want to do it. The thing is I DO IT no matter what, because I said I would. So far, almost every time I find myself thinking I’m glad I said yes.