Short thought on human relationships

Ever see the movie, Into the Wild? I highly recommend it.

There is this scene towards the end where the main character treks up this mountain and says to his friend,

“You are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships."

The thing about relationships is that they too have a ceiling. You know how it seems that all of life's treasures seem to always leave us wanting more or mega-disappointment?

For me, it's friends. When I'm living in Waco, I miss the friends in St. Louis. When I am St. Louis, I miss my Waco friends. It's shocking for me to recount the closest friends in my entire life and to realize that not a single one took away that deep pang of loneliness and insecurity.

I'm tired of the question, "Why don't you call me anymore?"

Even though at times, that very question nags at me.

Relationship is a gift, but I'm starting to see the very short ceiling of limits and I'm starting to wonder if relationship was meant to point me somewhere else.

"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity." - C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves