We seem made to connect, and when connection suffers we suffer.
There are those of us who do not desire connection. Either connection has brought pain or we do not understand how connection answers our unspoken questions.
And what of those who’ve left it in pain?
What can hurt us beneath the skin but need gone wrong?

The knife stab of a friend.
The judgment from a community.
A love gone bad.
The pressure to be someone or something from all the nameless voices in our lives.
Rejection.
Physical blows delivered by the anger of a heart that was supposed to nurture.

Deep down even those who reject connection need to be understood. They’ve just given up on the possibility.
Antagonism is often born out of hope deferred.

But to the masses who look for connection and to those souls who have brushed off and redeemed their longing for it… Why is it so hard to get right?
And why are there so many billions who settle for shallow connection, numbing their desire for anything deeper… Accepting that what they have is all there is. Settling down into a normalcy that does not bring mankind ultimately closer?

There is more. There is further we can go.

It seems to be that our connection to each other suffers because we have lost our connection to our own self… to our divine love. This is why we often hear that we must first find love and healthy connection within; And that will naturally lead to healthy connection without.