Do you belong?

Belonging. 

Acceptance 

Feeling wanted 

In possession of 

Needed 

intimacy with another 

Feeling secure 

Being 

Associations 

A relationship 

Loved 

A Myriad of ways to define belonging 

So why this endless search to find it? 

People search for belonging in what they do 

In what they wear 

In where they live 

In what others around them are doing and saying

People search for relationships that fulfill

Them, 

not realizing that belonging starts with knowing your Self. 

That belonging is independent of and 

Mutually exclusive with our environment

Who are you really? 

Just as the sage Greek philosophers emphasized to Know Thyself.

Therein lies our answer. 

The search therefore is not so much to belong, 

but to find ourselves. 

That Higher Self that the metaphysicians so often tell us. 

Maintaining a fine balance between Freud's Id, Ego and SuperEgo. 

We may not need to go beyond looking into the eyes of the person staring back at us in the mirror. 

At least to start with. 

That exciting journey within to find that 

Sense of 

Belonging 

Perhaps it's about love in its truest form

You cannot give that which you do not have. 

We want to feel loved and accepted. 

But do we really love and accept ourselves first?  

Do we have an intimate relationship with ourself? 

Are we whole beings walking around or do we need to pick up the shards lying around us

Shards that when glued just might create a magnificent piece of art 

Pieces that might be cracked 

But pieces that belong to each other 

Pieces with a purpose