Who are the people in your life? Are they the ones that motivate, inspire, and pull you up to your greatness? Are they the ones that draw on your energy, make life harder, and pull you down to your baseness? And, who are you to them?
The Human species are social animals and our ability to work as a pack through collaboration is what has allowed us to leap to the top of the food chain. It isn’t our thumbs, squirrels have thumbs. Nor is it our ability to think, lots of animals can think to varying degrees. What has protected our weak flesh, brittle bones, and lack of natural offensive capability (even my cats have claws), is our ability to work together for a common cause.
Now that some of us no longer have to struggle to just live everyday, how has our pack/tribe evolved? I’m going to refer to your closest friends as your pack. It is a much more accurate term than tribe due to scale. We would of had the type of pack in the days of survival who are good hunters and would share their skill set for the accomplishment of the hunt. But now, what is the hunt, and what is the pack good for?
What has happened is that our pack/friends are people we rarely choose. They end up in our social circle through affiliations of work, play, and family. Their utility to the hunt is mixed and is rarely an attribute when we form our pack. I think this is wrong. The implications of hap hazardly being around random people creates situations in our lives that match. How can you find your greatness when you are not in a pack of people searching for the same?
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