Can reality actually be defined? Is it a self-contained entity? Or is it the confirmation and acknowledgment of human beings of others and their surroundings? If that is true, then for something or someone to be real, it must be acknowledged by another. Everything has to have a counterpart. That validity is a requirement of existence. if that is so, then human beings are connected by some greater bond, some collective consciousness. Without each other, we do not exist, and that holds us together.