Belonging. The thing every kid chases in school. First you find a group of people to belong to, then it changes, or they change or you change, and you try and find your next group to belong to. After school, you move on to work colleagues and out of school friends. They change, you change, you leave jobs, they leave jobs. The cycle continues, over and over and over again. It’s a merry-go-round that you can’t seem to get off of or don’t seem to want to. But what drives it? Why do you keep getting on the ride? If you have a solid group of friends that you haven’t revolved out of yet, why still seek to belong to a group of people that may or may not be in your life in a day, a week, a month? It can’t all be social pressure or some biological need to be in a community. Why do we need to be liked and accepted by everyone? And how do you deprogram yourself from needing it? If anyone knows, I’d love to know.