Presence: Best Gift for Human Connection

Our in-person presence can often be the most valuable and useful gift that we have to give to others as we build and maintain our human connections.   The emotionally healthy person recognizes the presence or absence of other humans can significantly affect one's mental health.   Each of us comes into life with the need to have some type and degree of relating and connections with other humans.  Regardless of age, gender, geography, social group, etc., this need for some level of social connection is practically universal.    Learning and understanding the various roles of being present for another is a significant gift to connecting and supporting our relationship with them.