Lets start with the obvious bunch, teenagers. The current tweeny high schoolers said their phones, iPads, computers, Facebook, Twitter, etc were vital to their survival. To sum it up they pretty much said they couldn't live without whatever device it was that allowed them to be connected to a cyber world of dehumanized people for twenty four hours a day. Rarely, there would still be that one teenager that was more mature than the rest that would say their family or friends. They couldn't live without them and never wanted to.
Moving a few years past the teenage epidemic, I received more answers like "my boyfriend/girlfriend," "my dog, he's my baby," and "my mom, I can't do anything without her." I understood and it made sense to me that people at that age would answer like that, and I thought that as the age started to change the answer would continue to. Much to my surprise all the answers that followed from those older generations were terribly similar. People can't live without their families, friends, neighbors, children, husbands, or wives. A way to put it simply is this: people can't live without people. Some would argue that is the very human beings that surround you everyday that make you human in the first place. So it seems plain enough, we all, as people, have a common thread. Nobody wants to live alone, and a lot of us think we can't do it anyway.
Whether we think about it on a daily basis or not. We need/want/depend on the people we're around. So live with the people that you never want to live without while you can; they make you human in the same way that you make them.
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