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Connecting with people helps me grow.
Growing helps me to be able to give.
Giving makes me feel more connected.

Somehow my scattered and directionless life has found this positive cycle, and I think it started with being koveah ittim l'Torah. Voluntarily learning Torah impacts you as a person. As one develops, it becomes increasingly meaningful to actualize that development in a positive way. Why improve things that you aren't really going to use? 

I think an important nekuda is that growth and potential without actualization leads to stagnant decline. 

Of course another important nekuda is the power or connecting.

These aren't chiddushim, pretty sure I learned much of this from Rav Dessler, but it hits different when you see it applied in your own life.