Choosing Stillness Over Society: The Challenge of Finding Genuine Communities

Do you want to be geniune or popular?

Years ago, I was at a happy hour with work colleagues. They were gossiping about some of our colleagues that weren’t there. They weren’t in this clique. The man they were gossipping about was rather quirky, but he was actually one of the most popular professors among the students. I found him to be very caring towards me. So it bothered me that they wer…