The Lorelai Gilmore Guide To Building A Village
Tonight, I’d love nothing more than to stay home, snuggled up in bed, watching Gilmore Girls with my boyfriend. I don’t want to leave the house. I’m behind on work. I think I have a minor neck injury. I don’t feel like commuting to the city by bus in the cold, dealing with inevitable delays from the newly implemented bus network. I know I’ll be out late, eyelids heavy, skin stinging from dance-induced sweat.
But I’m setting aside all of these inconveniences to foster what I’ve lacked for so many years: community. When you’re an adult and childhood friends drift away, sometimes for purely geographical reasons, you can’t keep mourning what you had. You have to build something new where you are. That doesn’t mean throwing away old friendships or stopping reaching out. However, in-person connections will always trump sporadic two-sentence check-ins via Facebook Messenger.