We need each other

We were not meant to be alone. We were built to be in community.

It is not a positive evolution to see the increased isolation happening around us. People need people.

I have a fiercely independent spirit. I want to do things by myself, for myself. I don’t like to depend on others. This is good to a point, but it also has its downside. It can lead to being isolated and alone. It can lead to carrying the weight of the world alone.

The way we live is isolating. We don’t live in family groups. We often don’t even know our neighbours. We create communities online and at work. But what happens when you need someone to babysit? Or you need a cup of flour? Or someone to make you feel seen and heard?

I don’t have the answers for these questions. What I do know is what we are moving toward is the wrong target. We need to reinforce family, not destroy it. We need to build real tangible communities. Of course an online community is good too, but it can’t replace the real life communities that have existed for all human history.

We need to look back into the past for what it can teach us. We have to stop looking down on the past as ideologically wrong and backward; instead look into the past and see the strengths in it.

People need people.

Genesis 2: 18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper suitable for him.”