What is the one thing you can’t live without? This is a question that I heard while watching a TV show and the answers they gave themselves; friends, family, music, sleep and the list went on.
Can we really say there is only one this we can’t live without and what have we lived things have we lived without but then built a development. When you think about from the time you were born to now there are a lot of thing we have become dependent on. We may not remember times at birth, but if we compare to our childhood to another’s it may have similarities.
This is one question are asked many people, what is one thing they cannot live without, and yes there opinion is subjective and mine will be different to theirs but I will explain my answer by telling you what I feel what I can live without. I say what I can live without but that does not mean I wish to live without these things, it is just the lesser of the worse.
The top answer is Internet. Internet is something we have grown to become dependent on, with people on their smartphones, laptops and tablets everyday spending there life on these devices. When we were young did we have a phone but were still happy and functioning. The different from then and now is without internet we went to see people more often and did a bit more writing of letters then sending that SMS or whatsapp messages. The argument of wasting time scrolling through facebook, twitter or Instagram cannot apply as before internet we had the beautiful TV to start at.
Second more popular answer was, Food. Yes food is something we can’t live without. When people say that can’t live without food they refer to the fancy meals, the treats, the foods that are as I call optional extras. We can survive on 3 meals a day, whereas a lot of people have their breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a chocolate, coffee, biscuits and treats in between. So yes, food we cannot live without, but we can live without those treats.
Now what came in third place, can you guess. Well friends came in third place, not what I was expecting but the people say what the people think, just like these are only my thoughts. Some of you may or may not know this about me, but my friends are like my family, from someone who knew a guy who knew a guy to now having a hand full of friends. But even so, friendship is something that has been build and gathered over the years. When you were a kid, who were you first friends, someone you met when you went to school or a family friend, but until you were introduced to other people apart from you family, you family were you only friends.
From all this nonsense I have typed, I haven’t actually told you what the one thing is I cannot live without. It’s a difficult question and after thinking, I have to say it is family for me. Family are the people I have grown up with; my first friends. These are my mother, father, uncle, aunty, sister, brother, and cousins. These are the people when I am at my lowest they have been there and helped me grow to who I am today, not fully but partly because of them I am who I am. A close second is music, I’m not a great singer or can’t even play an instrument, but music is one thing that helps me zone out and go to my own world where I am left with my own thoughts, some I choose to share and others I hold to myself.
So I leave you with my thoughts and one question. What is the one thing you can’t live without
