I read my timeline & think about how frustrating people are, how inconvenient, how inevitably irritating. We are tedious, untidy, difficult. We change in unexpected ways, we need, we get sick. We get in the way. Something (it has many names) draws us all together even so.
I think why I shy away from many invocations of “community” because too many don’t seem to have people in them.
I've always felt wary of how the word "community" is used. It implies an inherent connection based on shared experiences and traits, which is maybe fine, but it also assumes this ownership of information -- that by having certain traits or experiences, you should also have specific knowledge.
People of shared experiences will probably relate to each other more, but I think we often create communities that define people by obvious outward appearances. It's not community, it's labeling.