We're not a bunch of islands

It used to bother me when people would act different in different situations, or with different people. It doesn't bother me as much now - I figure it's pretty inevitable. We're all part of a context. We act different around different people because the relationships are different. I'm not going to treat my grandpa the same way I treat a 12-year-old. It won't work.

I've been thinking a lot about community lately, too - how we're all defined by those around us and how if you're not in one (a community, that is), you start feeling very lonely and a little lost. As much as we don't want to admit it, we need others. We are people made for relationship and the more we try to fight that, probably the less we feel like people.