Relationships

It is known since Ancient Greece with Aristotle that the human being is a zoon politikòn ( political animal), which means it is naturally inclined to live between its similar and begin relationships.

First of all, nowadays we make a clear difference between three kinds of relationships in the sentimental field: the familiar one, the friendship and finally the romance.
All of that is part of someone during his or her life, but the question is made by itself: what relation is fundamental for one's good living?
Since we come into the world, we familiarise with our parents that are our support and they grow us trying to educate us in their own way, according to their culture, traditions and rules with the only aim to make their sons grow up well and see them happy.
When we start going to school we come in contact with other people, more in particular with peers. In this occasion, we had to face the shyness and get to know them. Friendship in every stage of life changes: when we are little we have lots of friends, then with the adolescence we start to have passions and we are shaping our personality so it is important to choose suitable friends for us, someone we get on well with, someone who has the same passions, he or she can also be very different from us but this difference should be constructive and inspiring. We are making a selection. From friends, we can bring some positive sides of their personality and make them yours; for instance, it is common to acquire behaviors, habits or the same way of talking of someone if we like it ( sometimes even if we do not).
In the adult stage, true friendship is rare... we need to pay attention and do not trust anybody, they can be our friends only for money, favours or to reach another aim... so friendship needs to be cultivated day by day, it needs the patience to build it strong and based on trust.
Moving on, everyone desires to be loved and everyone in a way or another loves, it is a very complicated relation this one, that has a lot of shades and depends on the person that form the couple. It is a combination of lots of aspects, from the chemical attraction to the reciprocal appreciation. There are a lot of theories on this topic, but we have to distinguish it from passional love and sentimental love meant as a disinterested fondness. We are always trying to find the other half, maybe because we still have the animal instinct to reproduce us or for a more romantic reason explained by Plato in the myth of the androgynous.
Suffering for love is common, but the feeling experienced on the loss of a friend is immense, because true friendship has no inhibitions like the relationship with a lover.

So, it is evident that life without one of this relationships will always seem like something missing because we are never satisfied of what we have and we appreciate it when we do not have it.

In conclusion, loneliness is not admitted for human beings as Aristotle said: “ We are not beasts or even gods”