The Five Minute Friday prompt word is:  Belong

Ready to write for five whole minutes without regard to getting it just right?   I am! (Which takes a lot since I’m a perfectionist at heart – Eeeek!)

Set? (Come on, set your timers!)

Go! (Let it rip, girlfriend!)

There’s nothing we want more than to belong – in a group, to be accepted, loved for who you are, to have a sense of belonging, to be among friends, to belong to someone special.   It’s a longing deep within our being to belong.  Why is it so difficult then?

There are times we feel ostracized.  We feel left out in the cold.  We feel as if every one else has a place on the face of the earth but us.  We feel that everyone serves a purpose, has a calling, other’s lives are intertwined and yet there we are floating through time alone.

Why can’t we fit in?  Better yet, why would we WANT to?  We were made to be uniquely different from everyone else, and yet, we all want community.  We want to fit in, to be included.  We don’t want to spend the rest of our lives looking in on other people’s lives and the fun they’re having.  We don’t want to wish for that special someone or that best friend that everyone seems to have but us.

We want to be fulfilled … to fill a place in someone’s heart so that they feel that they belong as well.

And then it happens.  Two people that are floating through time feeling the exact same thing at the same time but thinking they are alone in their thoughts.  Yet, finally one speaks, and the other says, “Me, too!” and instantly a bond begins to form and they belong!  The day they have been waiting on has arrived, and they have a sense of belonging like they never have before.

Because they do!

Now they belong to each other.

STOP!