One Person vs Tribe

In the tribe everyone had their job - the hunters hunted, the cooks cooked, someone watched the babies, someone older taught the older children, someone crafted containers, someone crafted weapons...all the chores of everyday life were disbursed throughout a group of people.

In today's world the group is (mostly) gone and yet - all the tasks of life are still demanding attention. What happens is that we, as individuals, begin trying to take care of all the tasks ourselves.

One person vs. a tribe. Which one is going to be more effective?

We have set ourselves up to fail in this newfangled way of life, where we live so completely cut off from everyone else, so independently. As the individuals trying to do every job in the tribe, we lose out. Success may be possible (for a short duration) but at what cost when every fiber of your body is stretched to the utmost and the fight or flight reflex is now a permanent state of being?

It's simply not possible for a single human to do every job of the tribe, and yet life demands them all. We are hardwired for partnership in life and it is that hardwiring that makes us so keenly aware of and so desirous of partnership.

This is really important - we are hardwired to need other people because we are not hardwired to do everything ourselves.

We live in a strange world - everyone is grappling with this, but then we seem to spend so much time isolating ourselves, being private, trying to etch our own mark on the world.

One person vs. a tribe. Which one is going to be more effective?

In this modern day life, it is really, really, really important to assemble teams and let go of the illusion that you can do it all yourself. Your happiness depends on it. How can you possibly be happy when you are dead on your feet from trying to do it all? How can your life have any semblance of quality? How can you do the things that are important to you and give you joy? And you deserve to be happy. You deserve joy.

Blessings.
- Darshan




(c) 2010 Darshan F Jessop

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