social wealth
I took a quiz last night that is used to promote Sahil Bloom’s new book, the 5 types of wealth. You can find it here: https://www.wealthscorequiz.com/
I scored quite high on all aspects aside from social wealth, and that got me thinking.
Social wealth is, from what I could gather, having a strong core set of close people, a loose network of others, and a connection to community or group or something bigger than yourself.
Social connection and stood relationships are immensely beneficial to physical and mental health. Some studies even show it increases longevity and increases your resilience to deal with stressful times.
So it really bugged me that I scored low!
I started thinking about so many past relationships - friends and acquaintances - that sort of simply withered and died and we lost touch.
I’ve actually tried to reach out to some of those folks to reconnect, just say hi, grab a coffee, whatever. Most of the time I get ghosted, or a response that is a polite “nice to hear from you” and no meet up ever materializes.
Did I do something wrong? Have I slighted these people without knowing it? Or did we just silently agree to move on and this rekindling is neither wanted nor welcome? Or is it simply they are too busy? Too far?
It frankly triggers deeply seated insecurity in me. I’ve always been a bit of a misfit. And in childhood, it was not easy to find others like me - people who just didn’t fit into one of the standard social molds, but it did happen and we’d sort of form a motley crue of people.
It is much harder to do that as an adult.
But you know what, I’ll continue to try. If only one or two close knit friends come of it, I would consider that a huge win.
As for belonging to a larger community, that hunt continues.
Wanna be my friend?