Why One Needs to Socialize

It was about 2,500 years back, a human race thought of living at a fixed place instead of a wandering life in search of food and congenial climatic conditions. This was a difficult proposition for mainly two reasons -

1. Naturally available food gets exhausted at a place with continuous consumption of it by inhabitants of the place. Hence, regular food supply has to be ensured at the place.

2. At every place on the globe, weather keep on changing with annual cycles of heat, rains and cold. Therefore, adequate arrangements need be made at the place to safeguard life against severe weather changes.

For the first problem, artificial ways and means of growing food items at the place were devised. This practice is known as agriculture. The second problem was solved through covering the bodies and living in constructed houses at the place. These factors demanded more varieties of work by a person for smooth survival, apart from his/her instinctive duty to procreate - from agriculture to making clothing to building houses. Since, no single individual could perform all these tasks by him/herself, division of labor was adopted as a way of life, making the persons interdependent and hence social. Thus, the humans came to be known as social animals.

Sex has been the most basic instinct of humanity to procreate, giving rise to need of taking care of children so produced. With the building up of homes as shelters, a unit called family was devised which comprised of a father as the economic support, a mother for producing and taking care of their children until they grow to be independent, and the children. Living together with mutual care and share made them emotionally attached to each other. Thus, apart from physical needs, emotional needs too came into existence, needing more cooperation within the persons living at a place.

Staying and living at a fixed places by different groups of persons gave rise to gradual developments of villages, towns and cities which gave rise to what is popularly known as human civilization. This enhanced number of tasks to be performed by human-beings such as making passages to interconnect different locations of their residences, developing languages for communications, etc. which made life more complicated and more demanding apart from being more comfortable and meaningful.

Thus, the humans after getting socialized kept on adding variety of needs of life and hence more inter-person cooperation became indispensable. As they became more civilized and cultured, emotional content and hence needs of their lives too went up. Now, this emotional content of human life has become key to all the inter-person relationships. Mutual love and affections are emotional sides of these relationship needs.