ISOLATION!!!!

Science has shown us quite clearly. Isolation, loneliness and little emotional support is as bad for us as heavy smoking*. If we don't have feedback and support our life satisfaction is diminished considerable along with life expectancy. To live life long and healthy.....WE NEED PEOPLE!!! We know that addiction and disease are made worse by isolation.

So what keeps us from more meaningful connections with others? Inertia, rejection, fear of conflict?.....what ever it is we need friends. We need those people who care about us and we them. It is risky. They can reject us and after all they aren't any more perfect than we are...sometimes less so. But that meaningful caring...both ways...that our lives become brighter.

Relationships, like a house, need regular maintenance. Make calls....check in....care. For your own good.