Why do we like one another?

It is like an occupational hazard of being humans. It is not something we are expected to do or something but something we end up doing, no matter how much we try avoiding it. Oh, don't get me wrong I do not think it is bad for people to like other people. I am very much a social person who likes many people too. But as a psychology student I have recently tried understanding this human behavior of liking people. Also my favorite serial, House m.d. has contributed to my this analysis of mine. I will be borrowing heavily from the quotes used in that show. 

Lets start with a quote -

"People like talking about people. Makes us feel superior. Makes us feel in control. And sometimes, for some people, knowing some things makes them care."

We share things with our friends not because it makes us feel better, because truthfully it doesn't provide anything when you just share. You do not feel lighter. Whats happens is when the person you tell it to gets effected and responds like we expect other humans to react. So when people tell us we have a tendency to get affected by that and end up caring for that person. So the idea of sharing your joys and sorrows with your close ones is so that they can all give each other the publicly recognized reaction so that we can all live in this illusion that we want each other to share things. 

The word empathy is an illusion because no one can ever completely perfectly empathize with the other person in any situation even if we have gone through the same life situation. For a simple reason that we all have an experie