The advantages of coming together as a community are endless. First, you’ve heard the saying, “two heads are better than one.” Let’s move that to a larger scale. What if everyone in your local community came together, shared their ideas, brought their skills together and worked at making those ideas come to life as a team? So many more projects would be possible to complete. Lives would feel more fulfilled and your community would transition into a more beautiful place. For all most of us know, we could have a neighbor with a skill that compliments ours in a way that could make this world a better place but we wouldn’t know because most of us keep to ourselves and work on our tiny puzzle piece. Bring all the puzzle pieces together and you have a much larger picture.

When a community comes together, a support system is actually created for those involved. Technology has caused society to move faster but has caused us to become more detached from one another. By coming together, we remove the aspect of getting lonely. Loneliness can lead to mental illness, substance abuse, an increase in violence and a great deal of other issues.

Communities that are closely tied together also tend to buy their goods and services local. By doing this, they are keeping more money within their local community. It’s important to keep as much money in your local economy as possible so that your town doesn’t end up run down and deserted. Help your town thrive! Keep the unique aspects of your town alive and try to help them grow.

Sure, it’s easy to run by a big chain store and grab what need quickly but what you must realize that by doing that, you are neglecting the needs of your community. That means that the family that runs Mom and Pop’s Convenient Store missed out on that business. That money helps them to keep their doors open and feed their family. If we, as a community, help one another succeed, we’re better off as a whole. Like the African Proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”