People Need People

Studies show that people who sleep in the same bed (and I do mean sleep) with other people tend to get a lower quality of sleep, due to the tossing and turning of one's bedmate. The same study also showed that the psychological effects of having a sleeping partner greatly increase one's happiness in the waking hours.

Another study showed that people, in times of stress will flock to others, as if the pescence of people alone would be enough to calm them.

People, as it seems, need people. It seems necessary, even crucial for people to have companionship and inclusion in their society. Whether you are willing to admit to it or not, whether it is concious or not, everyone wants to be part of the group, part of society, and part of a larger whole, bigger than themselves alone.

But what about those of which getting to be part of that whole seems just a little out of their grasp? What about those freaks, geeks, posers, and losers that, for some-odd reason do not merit inclusion?

Those whom we shut out of the group can, if they dont find inclusion elswhere, suffer serious repercussions later in life that can affect the way they live and operate.

Then one day, someday, as if snapped from nowhere, they will make their desires known. They will make that cry for inclusion, and unfortunately, sometimes it isn't pretty. Those who beg and beg for a friend, for a group to call their own, but come up empty handed can resort to sometimes deadly methods. Sometimes, they would literally kill for compainonship, either themselves or others.

These outcasts and scapegoats starve for the companionship of others, and with noone to give it, what else are they to do?

The moral of this sometimes tragic tale? Include those whom are cast out, noone likes to be an outcast. Everyone needs a friend. It can save their life you know. It may even, one day save your own.