It occurs to me that you can only truly experience happiness if you share it with someone. Really and truly.

You could spend your life achieving and perfecting your goals, and sure, you might get to know about some people along the way, but you really can't be a happy person without really knowing at least one person. Happiness is the shared experience. As soon as you find out something funny, you begin to think "I hope I get to tell someone about that."

To most people this is just natural but I've been thinkning about it and what it means to have a friend to share things with, and I've just been overcome with a renewed sense of love for my friends, because they really are so important to my life. It's just a great thing to have the enlightenment and realisation of such a thing.