Before summer started, I asked a friend what he really wanted before he died and he said, “a group of people who I love and love me back.” The simplicity in this answer was surprising but I put some thought into the statement during my summer and I’ve come to realize that I would be a happy man indeed if I could maintain my relationships with my close high school friends for the rest of my life. Thinking about it is strange; everyone eventually branches off into different parts of the world, each with his/her own ambitions and goals but if we were all to come back home one day in the future, nothing would be different. We all desperately seek companionship and scrapping away all materialistic ambitions would leave a desire to have people close to you.
It’s hard to comprehend the statement, “money can’t buy you happiness” until you’re sitting alone in your aged years wondering where all your childhood friends disappeared off to.
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