Life is a team, full of sound and social flurry — signifying everything.
For it is just exactly how it seems; we live and move and have our being within the team.
We are birthed into the pod of community, spawned in the thundering herd of family, sealed, stamped, delivered to society — and run over by sociality.
Alone is a fiction.
There is no being alone. We are all handed off and handed on and handed down.
Poverty is a team, wealth too, likewise demolition and construction, bee colonies, business office staffs; groves, fish; study groups, families and migratory birds.
We fly in formation, collaborate in clusters, strategize, fight, make-up and love coupled.
We batch, bunch, bundle; flock, school, swarm; show off and riot in unison.
Think Facebook, smart phones, Starbucks. Think the greasey-spoon, the local cafe. Think sports, school, church, family.
We ache to connect, meet, exchange, belong, collaborate, text, be friends, be family, Leggo together. Even the most independent of us, at times, comes up for social air — the check up, the check in, the debrief.
Life is fickle with its affections, its endearments, its affirmations, and maybe, just maybe, we get the amount of love we need — and maybe we don’t.
But either way, we know we are a team when there is that lonely, lopsided, lumpy, lurking, laughing longing for more of each other, for closer, for belonging, for being known.
And in those lonely moments of not wanting anymore alone — after we have been fired or told it’s over or told we didn’t make the team or told we have cancer — then we know how much we still need each other.
And when we can’t — be included, take a position, play, contribute — when life knocks us down, adds us up and tosses us out, then we are still not done.
Then we can yet cheer, for someone else, and so and thus, still be on the team.
Time out?
It’s just a stop along the way before teaming back up.
Modern Soliloquies & Pastiches 