You are still holding on.
Are we alone?
I do not think that we are.
Humans are inherently social creatures.
We do not have
Fangs
Claws
Poison
Armor
Camouflage
We only have
Intelligence
Endurance
Community
We need each other to survive. An individual human, left alone, is not going to make it very far. Our young are defenseless, unable to even lift their heads from the weight of their brains. Other animals can run as soon as they are born, standing on shaky legs and ready to face the world. Left alone, we would make it only days.
This is as true today as it was when humans first began to walk on this Earth. We have multiplied, vastly. We have explored much of the land, water, and sky (although there is still much more to discover). We have built towering cities that glitter and shine and we have torn them down with unchecked violence. And still, we cannot begin this life on our own.
Humanity is capable of both great love and great violence. We have concocted systems that serve to separate us from each other. That prevent us from giving care.
This is not something that we must live with.
Our greatest flaw as a species is also our greatest strength. We build social bonds that allow us to take care of each other, but the end result is that there must be an other. There must be someone on the outside, as that allows us to determine who is on the inside.
And in our current time we have determined many others.
The world keeps turning, and as it does, our problems seem to grow. War, disease, climate change, unrest. These problems are exacerbated by our separation. We have turned it all into a game where there can be no winners, yet we are always striving for it, convincing ourselves that we will be the special one, the lucky one.
We need to remember that there is no winner.
No one can do it alone.
You have done nothing in this world entirely on your own. You were not born alone. You have not grown your food from wild seed, picked and prepared it with no assistance from anyone else. You have not raised a lamb, sheared and spun its fleece into thread and cloth, sewn it together into clothes. You have not paved the roads you walk on, built every building in which you reside.
There is no shame in this.
No one else has done these things alone either. Even if you had done some of these things entirely alone, you did not create the idea. You were taught what food is good to eat and with what techniques to prepare it. We are all building on a collective knowledge that is thousands of years old. When you consider that, does it not seem excessively prideful to decide that you are independent?