belonging, n.Definitions

Belonging is a desire, partly a desire to lose ourselves.

Belonging is necessary for growth. We must all belong to something before we are anything.

Belonging is always also about entering into a common bond of guilt, of guilt and of inevitable compromise.

Belonging is sometimes necessary to achieving one's goals. Sometimes you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.