The Rich Ride Alone

Get this. A recent study published in Psychological Science showed that people with the biggest bank accounts have the LOWEST ability to emotionally connect with others.

And you automatically understand why, right? Logically, those with less resources have to depend more on others. Can’t afford your own car? Then you rely on someone else–a friend with a ride, a car pool, a bus driver–to get by.

The presence of need triggers our awareness that we benefit from human connection.
It pries open parts of our hearts that we’d rather hide behind projections of stronger, better selves.
Vulnerability becomes the secret sauce of human connection.

Get too cool for school, with your multi-cars and multi-garaged houses to hold them and there’s nothing driving you toward regular interdependence. You get out of practice being human.

You forget how to love and how to be loved.
You forget how to understand and be understood.
You forget how to belong and how to offer belonging.

So if you find yourself lacking, you might consider that need is a natural part of the cycle of life. And that maybe God wants to use that need to prompt you toward the companionship he intended.

It only follows then, that regardless of what’s in our bank account, if we wanted to live in balance, we would seek to live every day as if we’re connected to other people.

Because we ARE.

You can read more about this phenomena here.