You don't need anyone
We all have people who we depend upon, rely upon and trust with our darkest secrets but have you ever thought that do you really need them ? Do you really need your partner the way you act you do ? What if you had no one in your life to rely upon ? Don't get me wrong, From evolution we all know that humans are a social animal, I know we all thrive in groups. If we see evolution how it is, the chance of single human surviving the wild would be almost 0.
See evolution played a huge role in how we make relations today, humans back then hunted in groups, lived in groups and thrived like that. And that's how evolution made us. It made us to be in the group, to be the part of the group, none of us want to be alone or a loner as we say today. But do we really need a particular group or are you fine on your own in this world ? Answer is simple, Yes you need a group. But you don't need anyone. See from this sentence my interpretation is if you don't have X (a name) in your life then you will have Y in your life. So you will definitely have a group in your life but not necessarily a particular group and that's where the philosophy comes in.
You don't need anyone to thrive in this world
How, you may ask ? There is always a replacement of each person in this world. You can't replicate the person but you can replace them their respective position. Say you have a friend X, but imagine if you never met X then in place of X there would be someone else say friend Y. Now X and Y might not be the same person but that does not mean that you may not hold the same place for you and that's the beauty of human nature.
But then why do we need certain people if we can replace them with someone else and the answer is very simple Attachment . See we tend to idealize the certain person in our lives, so much so that even when we see that this person is not who we think we are we go into denial. Idealization of any person is like drinking poison imagining it's water when you already know it's poison. This all is caused by Attachment. Instead see their actions rather than the idealization you made of them. Are they truly the person you idealize them to be ? Attachment is the beauty of human nature though it hurts us also deeply. Any kind of attachment to anything will hurt you in a long run wherever the future leads you to but this is how we humans are encoded, we can't force ourselves to not attach to a person or outcome or anything, rather we can learn how to detach at the correct times. I will leave you guys with a saying that a friend once said to me
Attachment is the root cause of all suffering.
Best Regards
AS