0 responses to “it makes no difference how old or young you are, there are ten absolutes: 1. we need shelter 2. we need clothing 3. we need food 4. we don’t wish to worry 5. we wish to be happy, which what that truly means is that the opposite of a feeling of anxiousness / suffering is a feeling of calm / and pleasure 6. hence we have to have hope (for as any constant pleasure loses its pleasure, whereas hope is in the future; but as it hasn’t happened… it can give a constant pleasure (as it hasn’t become boring – this is why in a way a poor (but secure person) is wealthier than a rich; for the rich person knows that money doesn’t buy happiness, while the poor who imagines one day he will be wealthy has a pleasure) 7. we fundamentally perhaps most of all want to have a meaningful – in other words, a giving which we can be proud of, life 8. as we are social creatures we need friends, not false acquaintances – but someone who you know will never ever shame you, for s/he accepts you unconditionally 9. we do need intercourse 10. and we must have children”