Oftentimes we suffer from the illusion that we are discrete, disconnected entities. We fail to see the spiritual stems which connect us to the tree. Our spiritual stems are real in the supernatural sense, and in the natural as well. Life itself comes through the stems. Every human is connected umbilically, in an uninterrupted chain right back to the first two original parents.
All life flows through the stems.
We forget that too easily. No human develops true humanity without receiving first life, and then love, not to mention food and shelter, from other humans. Every family understands the necessity of sharing. No functional family expects each individual to be always and fully autonomous and self-sufficient. When we seek to impose that silly standard upon society at large, it is because we are blinded to the fact of our spiritual stems, the reality of our lives as family.