Pack animals suffer when they are rejected by the pack. They know instinctively that they need to belong. It’s in their DNA

Could this be the basis of our suffering? I think I’m on to something here. I think that we are pack animals, and that our insanity is that we have lost the ability to identify with our pack. Families don’t form packs anymore. Neighbourhoods seldom do. Nations have quasi-packs, and belonging to something helps a person feel better, to suffer less. But there is always the fear and obsession of rejection because these packs lack solidity and loyalty.

I think this is why we suffer, because we have forgotten how to be loyal to our pack, which in the first instance is our family.