What's the value of wanting to belong?

Have you ever lamented "I don't belong!" or spent your life trying to fit in with others around you? Has it been easy?

Perhaps you've always know you were different and found it simpler, and more fun, to hang out by yourself, doing your own thing? Did you nevertheless feel a nagging pressure to belong, or believe that you were somehow wrong for not fitting in?

What if there was nothing wrong with not belonging?

Did you know the definition of belong includes: to be the property of, to be part of, and to be suitable for something? Is that what you're looking for? 

If you'd like clarity about this, ask "What's the value of wanting to belong?" Perhaps your inability or non-desire to 'belong' was simply your awareness that you were already, wholly, and suitably the property of something: YOU. 

So what if rather than 'longing to be' something else, you embraced being all of who you are already?