Radha Agrawal

And so the cover of my book has a doorway on it, right?

Because the concept of neighborhood, neighborliness is also lost.

I live in New York City, we live in New York City.

Do you know your neighbor's names?

Do you know the neighbor across the street?

I don't know my neighbors.

I've been there for three years.

And I've tried to make friends with them and there's sort of this kind of

don't talk to me type of thing.

And so we're making a big effort.

We have a welcome committee, like little figurines outside our door that says welcome to our home.

If you need salt, come and borrow it.

And we're trying, but it's on all of us.

Society needs to embrace the concept of neighborhood again.

need sugar but if you need salt yes yeah exactly you're not gonna get a bag of white sugar yeah definitely um yeah so it but but i think you know community if the most generous act we can do as human beings is to create community the most generous thing we can do for ourselves and for each other is to sort of extend our hand and say hey will you be my friend and

So that's true for me.

When I turned 30 years old, I looked myself in the mirror and I realized I didn't belong.

And that was the beginning of my journey to community.

And that's the first page of my book.

Yeah, in my 20s, I spent sort of sleepwalking.