Belonging means limitations. When you belong, you are part of something bigger than yourself and this means you have limits. Community has limits by its very nature. If you want to be free to do anything you want, you will never be shaped into becoming who you were meant to be at your best. Attachments, belonging, are what shape us. Tarzan had issues! A young child without attachment to a parent, such as in orphanage, may very well have their emotional and psychological growth stunted. They may survive yes, but growth is survival plus. Attachments are the plus. Refugees are detached from home and at times from family and community. This will take a terrible toll down the road for and from the survivors. Alcoholics are isolators who begin to recover and grow up through belonging to a group of fellow recovering alcoholics. They meet regularly and begin to bond in friendship and service impossible in their isolated, selfish, fear-based drinking days. I try not to do life alone. Happy Leap Year. An extra day to love.
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