Lauren Jackson

It wasn't.

Just the work that I'm doing, it just feels like a lot of corporate bullshit.

Like, I think my parents' generation had a much stronger belief that, like, work is good.

And, like, by working, you are making the world a better place.

But, like, my generation, like, a lot of us do not feel that way.

A lot of us see our jobs as just a job.

We don't see it as an outlet for, like, meaning.

The community piece, I think, is the piece that...

still aches, you know?

I think many people have realized, especially in the last few years, that they really don't have the depth of community that they long for in their lives.

We all live in these separate nuclear homes with our nuclear families, and we think this is like the pinnacle of first world country success, but

The huge con of that is we're isolated.

All my old undergrad friends have left or like they're all just like in their own little buckets.

You know what I mean?

Everyone's separate.

For me, even though I left the church.

I feel a pain I don't really know how to describe.

I've had this like really strong desire to like host barbecues like in my apartment complex.

I've like felt like I could will a community into existence.

When things go wrong, when they get sick, when something really hard happens, many people I talk to are looking for a connection and community that they're just not finding in comments online.