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>>jger15+(OP)
Alternatively, never blow up your life! Live near your family and lifelong friends, establish hardcore roots with your community, always be surrounded by love. A road less taken by the educated elites, but a happy and fulfilling road nonetheless.

The Onion’s take: https://www.theonion.com/unambitious-loser-with-happy-fulfil...

>>monero+OX
"One doesn't realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied." ~ CS Lewis

I don't know the context of the quote and I know next to nothing about CS Lewis, but having blown my life up at one point and experienced freedom on a level few on this planet could achieve (health, money, time, and will) the quote rang very true for me.

I think some people grow up in a community and are rooted within that community, but those people are also subject to that community and there is no guarantee that that "community that surrounds you with love" is a good community.

"Always be surrounded by love..." unless you are gay. Gay, trans, atheist, feminist, brown, an opioid addict, a questioner of authority, or otherwise different.

>>hayst4+Fo1
"One doesn't realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied."

There are traveller communities. You hook up, spend time together, split up and meet some of them around the globe later, if you want to.

>>hutzli+5H1
True bonds require years and decades of frequent interactions to grow.

>>badpun+Cl3
Nope. I have stronger bonds with people I met only a short, but very intense time, compared to most people I know all my life.

But in general yes, frequent meeting in person is nice and needed.