I totally agree with your idea of enjoying life with friends and loved ones. That's the best thing in life to be sure. Unfortunately it's also something that money can't buy. All my friends and loved ones have already gone to the great beyond. And it's really quite difficult to replace them. So yeah, as long as you have that option available to you consider yourself very lucky indeed.
Some of us have nothing left but cold hard metal to befriend.
It's quite difficult in this day and age to find good friends if you don't already have them. Most of my friends today are nothing more than avatars on the Internet. Or they are you tubers who's videos I watch a lot, but who don't even know that I exist. Kind of a one-way type of friendship, if you will. None the less, I appreciate them creating their videos and sharing what they do. Those are the extent of my friends.
I used to have two really cool cats, but both of them kicked the bucket recently too. Now all I have left is a bunch of gold fish in aquariums. Strangely even they are better than being all alone. But let's face it, they don't talk much.
So my tools and projects are the only "
best friends and loved ones" I have left.
I do have a few living friends, but they live hundreds of miles away. We keep in touch via phone calls. It's better than having no friends at all. But what are you going to do after you hang up the phone? Tools and projects are all that's left after that. It's either that or sit around listening to the rocking chair squeak.
