When all is said and done, we are each alone. Whether you’re single, married, mother of five, or the youngest of three, you are ultimately alone. In this world we are constantly striving to be content. We want to be content with our jobs, our homes, our families, but in order to truly be content we need to be content with ourselves. Nothing in this world is permanent and the only thing you can count on from the beginning of your life until the end – is you. So how do you become content with the person that you are?
It’s definitely wrong to think that isolation is the way to contentment. Yes, it ultimately comes down to you, but how can you know you unless you are able to see yourself through the eyes of the people in your life? As was so eloquently stated in Into the Wild, happiness can only exist when shared with others. You learn about who you are from the people in your life. You identify how you feel when you share with the people in your life. We are completely and unbreakably connected to the people in our life. How do you learn anything in this world without interaction with others? Without contact with others, you would have no learning experiences, no post-experience discussions, and regardless of how you may argue this – there would be no need to learn because learning is all about improving our life as it relates to others.
All part of God’s master plan? Absolutely.
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