Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world. Kamand Kojouri
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When he said, “Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn’t worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone,” Thelonious Monk was saying that one cannot fully enjoy the beauty of the beautiful things in life if they are not shared with others. In today’s world we try to share everything we do – from the way we dress, to our obsessions – with others. Monk understood that it is not enough to pursue a passion for a person or thing, one must share it with others as well.

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