More Than Fine…

Community

// April 6th, 2010 // Life

Some people want their space. They enjoy their privacy. I am not one of those people. I prefer to be surrounded. For some reason after college we decide living in community isn’t cool anymore. Having all your best friends in the same apartment, house or building, just isn’t what you are supposed to do anymore. You are supposed to go make your own way with 1 roommate at most. Live with two or more roommates and society will tell you need to grow up and that you aren’t living in a frat house house anymore (lets just pretend there aren’t economic and social benefits to having roommates).

And that is one of the reasons I loved my two week in New York for the New York City Urban Project (NYCUP). I loved NYCUP. I loved having 8-10 almost complete strangers around all the time growing together, challenging one another and just living and laughing together. Getting to hang out with this group of complete strangers every day was the most fun I have had in a long time. I felt like I was back in college. And it wasn’t just the high points that were memorable. It was all the in between moments when nothing was going on and boredom usually sets in, but we were still laughing, enjoying life and one another’s company.

Over the course of my two weeks in NYC our group of strangers was supporting one another, serving others, pursuing God and living the Gospel. And what could be better than that? I just have to wonder why life can’t look like that all the time.

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