Do you need friends to be happy?

Answer 1

Well I cannot answer this question for you... I know I do. The question you need to ask yourself in my opinion is "can I be happy alone?". I, for one, find it a lot more fulfilling to have friends to share my emotions and experiences with. But there is a saying that (translated) goes something like this - "friends are like melons, you need to try 1000 before you find a good one". True friends can be a blessing, false ones a curse. On the other hand it also depends on what you think happiness is. I guess you asked a true "philosophical" question, because in trying to answer it you just come up with other questions... All in all it is only the truth you find in yourself that will satisfy you, because it is only you that can truly answer your own question.

Answer 2

The question is "When you are happy do you need friends?" And yes, you do because you can't be happy all the time. When you are not happy, a true friend would wish for your happiness and can give you the support to get there. Alone we are nothing because without friends we can not have our achievements, successes, and mistakes recognized. Friends help us shape the right perspective on our life and teach us valuable lessons about ourselves because they can relate to you closer than anybody else. The connection you make with a friend is unique and lacking it invites misery to stay.

Answer 3

What I don't want is to feel alone. There are times when I was so much of a hermit I did not have friends & times when many said they were my friend& I still felt alone. What I need is to feel connected. I do have that today, but that comes with the few, not the many.

Answer 4

I am the type of person that loves people. If I do not have people around me to interact with, have good discussions, exchange ideas, have heated debates and end up agreeing to disagree, I would whither. I need to be around friends and family. If I am alone for very long, I find I am depressed.

Answer 5

well, its nice in a way to have people around who are kind of share your opinions on various matters.
Just someone, with whom you could share a drink, over the weekend, someone you relate to very closely, ....
someone whom I can criticize, abuse and get away with it, since they won't mind, since they realize its either for their good or I don't mean it.
Yep, I call those folks my friends, and they make my life happier ... Happier and not happy, since even without them, I have learnt to be happy, for the simple reason, that just in case I don't find one, I would still have to stay happy , won't I ?
Or do you guarantee that I would always find those of my kind ?

Answer 6

no not always sometimes my friends tend to stress me out with their lives even my cousins drive me nuts at times and tell me things about how they conduct their lives and its very sad and depressing how they act and makes me sad and not happy...what I have learned is that it could be my own Mother i have to put people in check sometimes and tell them to be quiet I do not want to hear this negative vibes or energy they are putting out there with there words........I see with all my friends they need to make others follow their ways as if to validate some bad aspects of their lives.......I am my own person and if something does not feel right to me I will say it.................I cherish the quality friends and relations in my life that help me to grow as a person always :)))

Answer 7

No, you need money to be happy. Friends can hurt you real bad.

Answer 8

Not really, to need something is not to be truly happy.

Answer 9

Not if when you are completely alone you remain in good company.

Answer 10

i think so, friend's , family and pet's.