Annie Dillard Teaches Me How To Live: I Wonder

The story I really enjoyed in Teaching a Stone to Talk was Living like Weasels. This was such a short simple and very true story for me. I wonder how people live with just one necessity and why does she believe this.

The story shows nature imagery and how weasels live, they have their one necessity and they live perfectly fine. If we as humans can find our one necessity that we cannot live without, how happy can we be? She thinks it is wise to grasp our one necessity and not let it go. I agree with holding on to something that you truly want, but how long can you hold onto something, when it wants to be let go?

Her last two paragraphs in the story have such great strength in words, that I wish I would have written them.

I'm interpreting her words as this:

We have things in our life that we need. Aside from the air we breath and food and clothing, we as humans need something else. I believe no one can tell you what you need because it is different for everyone. I'm trying to figure out what my necessity is. What can't I live without and I wonder if somehow it already passed me, and if it did when will it come back? If it comes back will I know it?

I wonder if anyone can have just one necessity and I wonder if someone has found what they need. I wonder if I can ever be able to have just one necessity, and is that necessity love and companionship?