If you only do one thing for your health today –
Let it be this:
Connect.
Genuinely.
With anyone.

The longest study on happiness ever conducted – The Harvard Study of Adult Development, running since 1938 – has made one thing painfully clear:
Relationships are not a luxury.
They are medicine.

After tracking thousands of lives across decades, the results are beyond dispute:
Good relationships keep us happier.
They keep us physically healthier.
They even help our brains stay sharper, longer.

Not wealth.
Not fame.
Not career achievement.
Not diet.
Not exercise alone.
Connection – that’s the must-have of a healthy life.

And for those of us who just can’t:
Connection doesn’t always mean dinner parties and phone calls.
It can look like writing.
Like talking to a camera.
Like sharing something real with an audience you can’t see, but who feel you.

When I speak to you like this – when I write these words – this is my way of connecting.
I’m not just broadcasting. I’m bonding.
I show up honestly. I share something vulnerable. I reach for conversation with you.
That’s a form of relationship too.

And it counts.

The body care less if the oxytocin is released through meeting in a bar or through a message.
The brain care less if the connection happens over coffee or through a screen –
It just needs to feel seen.
To matter.
To be in it, with someone, somehow.

Don’t underestimate what you have to share.
You’ve been through things.
You’ve learned the hard way.
Someone out there is still in it – where you once were.
Imagine what you needed then.
Now say it.

This counts too.
Talking to a lens. Writing to a feed.
If it’s real – it reaches.
If it’s honest – it connects.
It’s not small talk.
It’s not noise.
It’s one way – your way –
to give your nervous system what it needs most:
human connection.