An Open Letter

Today while I was running on the treadmill at the gym I saw the TV talking about the SF pride golf event, and it got me thinking about community as a whole. I know that there are a good amount of pride events, and those do give a community for people of that group. But also I think that the larger a community the less you can connect with it. I was thinking about how as a group I don’t typically think about as a minority – a man, the groups are much wider, and I think because of that there is less of a pressure to really connect. When I think about my communities, the more niche or small, the more connected I’ve been to them. To large groups I feel way less connected, but at the same time, it’s much easier to find. However, with the smaller groups, there is less of a pressure to conform and it is much more dynamic as you get to grow as a group, instead of growing into the group itself.