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Interdependence

1/24/2013

6 Comments

 
I have always been intrigued  by the concept of interdependence.  We live in a culture that values and covets  independence and has a fear and abhorrence of dependence. 

We seem to  polarize on these with little concept of what interdependence even means.  Yet  interdependence is the reality of how everything works.  We are all interdependent in a myriad of different ways.
 
In earlier cultures interdependence was the way of survival, acceptance and belonging. It was how a community thrived.  It was about the common good.  What was best not for one but  for the commons, the community.
 
I am recognizing the need for  a deeper understanding of what this means and the need for new skills to really  live into the value of the common good.
 
As in most co-op housing arrangements, our chosen decision making model is consensus.  This requires deep  listening, a willingness to consider options, striving to understand.  It means  examining our own perceived needs, our biases, our judgments and expectations.
 
It seems there should be a familiar and unconscious rhythm to interdependence; as life fundamentally lives that way.  Yet we seem to have moved away from this.  We draw our lines in the sand and keep our deal breaker clause in our back pocket, hoping for the best.  Wanting to be understood, accepted and valued.

What if there were only us, I  wonder.  No way to opt out.  No place to go.  What if leaving the community was  to be alone in the desert?  Would living interdependently be different then?   Would we find the lost rhythm of community?  Would we know enough to sit in  circle and wait patiently for our own wisdom?
 
Wonder-Bird
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