We are perhaps afraid of connection because it makes us open to another, leaves us vulnerable... but beneath the surface veneer of fear, I don't think we do desire to be disconnected... for all that we may speak of emotional or spiritual self-sufficiency, we are forever secretly searching for those whose thoughts or consciousness seem to melt into our own... not, perhaps, to complete us but to complement us, to inspire us; to offer a combined view greater than we can perceive alone...