Read any study on human satisfaction

Read any study on human satisfaction and you will see the paramount role of relationships with others. And yet, so many of us readily exchange friendship and community for success and achievement, only to conclude there is no amount of success that can satiate our drive for fulfillment or happiness. I know firsthand. Like most, I spent my twenties and thirties on a sojourn up Mount Significance. 

By twenty-five I had accrued two degrees. In my thirties I began doctoral studies. Before forty I had written three books. In…