We can get through life on our own. However, it is better when shared with others. This fact is one of those secrets to living a better life. It applies to team sports, groups we work with and any group activity. Great peace and enlightenment may be attributed to a guru on a mountaintop. That is not the same as true joy. In fact, do we ever picture a joyful experience as a person by himself? No, our pictures of happiness may be a single person, but when you think of greater satisfaction, other people enter the picture.
The Greatest Punishment
We all know that one is the loneliest number that there ever was. Depression is often attributed to people that are all alone, and prisons even make solitary confinement a higher level of punishment. It only makes sense that the opposite of being alone would thus be more likely to lead to happiness. We do not need large groups to make our life happier. Instead, we can find some like-minded individuals to share our journey and expand the fullness of our life. When we search for others to join us we may have to share the rewards, but we also will find that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
