In the you tube clip, the narrator, Alain de Botton, described that the “good life” was the result of friendship, freedom, and diminishing one’s worries. He described a satisfied life was a basic and simple way of life. There were no commitments desiring fabulous or erotic customs or materialistic items which would suggest that an individual is doing rather well in with oneself or their environment. In Epicurus’ world the cluster of society’s greed could not fulfil an individual’s endearment, but the basic human instincts would yield a fortitude or collection of fulfilment or satisfaction. The body only needs what is necessary, or the bare essentials, to work itself through the attainment for having a satisfying life. The goal is to avoid
