In life everybody is faced with certain difficulties that we must overcome. To not overcome them would either mean to change one's life or to end it there. The true test of virtue is to how commited one is to ending their life in face of a difficult problem. Virtue without a doubt results in a great deal of death in this world.
I am not without my virtues, and I am very commited to them. To me it seems as my primary quality would be the will to survive and have my word known. With my body being stripped of it's abilities in all fashion to spread my thoughts, then I might as well choose commitment and have my life ended.
Do you ever think about what you are truly commited to in your life? What are your virtues and how far are you willing to go to stand up to them? You shouldn't have to wait until you are presented with a problem before checking your beliefs and testing your fates against hypothetical tests. It would be best to know now which challenges in life will result in your demise.
If one's only ability to combat their challenges is to talk to other people then they may have a surprise in store for them. If at some point in their life they are alone, all techniques to combat the problem are instantly gone. An individual can not live an isolated existance, they must always believe that somebody out there truly cares for them, or that somebody in the future will know about them and care.
To care is to know that you would discontented to have that person pass away, or even less extreme to be bereft of their abilities. If the person was lying in a hospital bed clinging to life would you be there holding their hand?
How much would the death of those around you affect your life personally? It isn't a question many of us would like to ask, and we'd rather assume all of those around us would always be there. But I urge you to ask yourself this question of the people that you think you care about, or to count the number of people you care about based on this question. Is the number greater than fifty? a hundred? Or is the number something like three?
As life progresses people come in and out of your life, this will assuredly alter that number you had before. For those that have counted even ten or more the effect of losing a few, or gaining a few, is very little. For those that have less than 5, losing one could send you into a depressed state, and gaining one could give you great joy.
Is it a good idea then to have more people to care about? I think it is, but I'm not saying that caring is something you can just do at a whim. Those people that truly have fifty or more people they care about I'd wager to say don't understand what it really means to care about somebody, and even those that have greater than ten people they care for a great deal, are likely grasping at others to hold on to just in case something bad should happen.
My count is low: The pale one to teach and have anchor; The few of the green ground that provide stability and honesty; And the sky I'm trying to find to give direction and enrichment to my life.