What do we need to stay alive? Obviously , we need some basic things such as air , water, food,shelter...love...:) Yes, I realize  "love "is not in  the same category .. but I believe it should be..:)) Our scientists broke  down the needs of us humans  and constructed ..the model based on importance .  Starting with food etc. climbing up all the way up  to family unit, love ,creative activity etc. So I just "jump" a  little bit ahead of our "pyramid "with " love"...but  I believe  we need it even  more then we  realize...It doesn't have to be necessary romantic type...just pure connection with another person or sometime its not even a person..could be our pet...no , I am not joking ...connection is connection and I am truly convinced of it :) On occasions we don't even know them personally ( not talking about stalkers  lol)...we just "love " their books , point of view , music...it speaks to our heart ..we feel we understand them so well...Part of ourselves is "vibrating" to the same rhythm..., the world is little brighter because of that , we are more "beautiful" and "special"...just by feeling that  bond with another "person". Have you ever noticed how much more energetic , full of life and optimistic you feel when you find that ...soul connection...:)) As if all of our troubles  disappear ...We are not lonely anymore .., there is someone who understands us.., thinks or feel like us , thinks we are special , make us feel good,inspires us,gives us a  hope, like us, just  the way we are....all is still in the  connection ...We were not "design" to live and die on our own.., we seek intuitively to be a part of something outside of us but still relating to our soul . Not the "lonely rangers" of the vast cosmos but rather "kids on the journey together"..:) I thought about this very famous movie" E.T"....and how it showed this "creature " from out of space , needing only one thing to survive...not  food or advance technology...just love...I remember watching it many years ago for the very first time and then realizing ..."I am E.T....well... not literally and not only me...:))...we  ..human beings , we are  like that and  we need love  to stay alive... to feel connected ,even if it means in  purely psychological/ emotional/spiritual sense...Yoga and other spiritual activities and some religions are  teaching us  , that we are all connected ...even science is sort of caching up with that in string theory and fact we are all pure energy..:) Our senses make it harder to feel that...separation from each other in our perception of the world around us, deceives our inner need to blend boundaries between me and you. Anything that makes us feel connected , from pure physical to mental and emotional experience  brings us closer to feeling as one ..in peace...Make as many "real" connections as possible ..you wont "loose" yourself , make them not in the superficial way ..but by extending your true self to others..take off your mask ..you don't need it ...How can you ever "sing the same tune" with someone else when you are not listening to your heart ..? I promise .., if you "do" your own "song" you are more likely to connect with real thing, then if you just pretend or be afraid to show your own"notes"...:))So the first step is to get to know yourself and then show that  to the world...sometime its a bit scary in the beginning but eventually it becomes much easier then wearing an "uniform"...and one more thing at the end...why do we love our pets so much ...? Because ..,we don't have to pretend to be someone else ...better , cooler, like everyone else... and they still love us and probably, even more so...:))