Driving is a community.

Whether it is going to work, traveling to school, or rushing to a doctors appointment, you will see many drivers on the road. These drivers may not all be heading for the same destination, but everyone is headed somewhere. Everyone is essentially interacting with one another by acknowledging one's existence. Keeping your distance from the person in front of you or to the side makes for a pleasant, strong community. Letting a car merge once and while is preferred as well. With so many drivers on the road, there is no possible way for this community to be broken or faltered. Drivers on the road are all trying to get somewhere, the quickest, easiest way, and they are depending on the other drivers to get them there. Since there always be traffic, drivers need to be provided with that stability that other drivers on heading for the same place, somewhere. That is what is holding this group together.

Everyday, people desire to get to their destination. It might be work, school, a concert, the local grocery store. Many people are going to the same place or coming from the same place. Take for instance, the 2:00pm traffic rush. I don't know about you but I know this traffic to be the Boeing Traffic. The mass of cars driving south are all sharing the same need. The need to get home. Unfortunately, since there is an abundance of people getting off work at that particular time, they are going to be interacting a bit more with their community. Just like many communities, there will be those who want nothing to do with the needs and acceptance of this massive community.

From time to time, there will be that undesired "crawl" that drivers will experience. Drivers will experience this 5-10 mile hour crawl as a result of different scenarios. There might be an accident on the side of the road that prevents the community from working together to get to their destination. They are too distracted by the "action" on the side of the road (even when it is just a cop pulling someone over and who left their flashing lights on...) Construction  also puts a a great tension that works against our community. People end up breaking away from their normal community and finding support elsewhere, until they can eventually find their place back in with the community they fit in.

I am deeply involved in this community, for I drive everyday. This community serves most of my needs to get from point A to point B. I have been established within this community for a few years now and these people accept me and everyone else, only because we have to work together to meet our needs. I enjoy this community because even though it bears it flaws, it always finds a way to come together for its people.