those things aren’t automatic wins. your community/friends can be ungrateful and abusive people who simple taking advantage of you and don’t offer you anything back, or worse, tell you your contributions aren’t enough and you need to give them more.
yes in an ideal world you would volunteer and it would create a positive feedback loop. but that is not often the case. lots of volunteer communities are shitty, exclusionary, and exploitative. personal/community relationships may leave you worse off than you were.
and socially isolated/emotionally vulnerable people are way more likely to fall victim/be targeted by exploitative groups.
those things aren’t automatic wins. your community/friends can be ungrateful and abusive people who simple taking advantage of you and don’t offer you anything back, or worse, tell you your contributions aren’t enough and you need to give them more.
yes in an ideal world you would volunteer and it would create a positive feedback loop. but that is not often the case. lots of volunteer communities are shitty, exclusionary, and exploitative. personal/community relationships may leave you worse off than you were.
and socially isolated/emotionally vulnerable people are way more likely to fall victim/be targeted by exploitative groups.
for sure yes. There’s no magical solution to loneliness.