On Our Nature of Socialization

It is important to have a healthy and abundant social life. Social interactions are positive sum games. When you interact with others, both parties benefit. It is especially important to collaborate with others for our ancestors in ancient time: they needed to collaborate to hunt a deer, they needed to collaborate to protect themselves, they needed to collaborate to share food to protect survive days without too much harvest. Even more recently, in agricultural societies, people needed collaboration to find water and irrigate the crops. A loner simply cannot survive.

Because of the importance of sociality, evolution tends to select those who feel unhappy when not socializing with others and aspire being social. That is why socialization is not only important materially, but vital psychologically as well. It's inherent in our genes. Nature calls us to be social. Well, most of us.