You and yours are in my mind, and thoughts of only good outcome abound!  The power of a collective mind is amazing and indescribable!  Best to you, always............

Sorry I can't vote anyone up, I'm too" new.  Michmar118 here, it's a long confusing story but I did post it.  Wide range of answers here.......I'd say water, especially clean water pumped into the house, with the memory of the experince of having no water for 2 1/2 days last fall when my well pump went bad and I live in the stix!    Also, not having a vehicle, especially in bad weather,  because I live in the stix!!  But, overall it's worth it....

jhharlan, before I read the rest of your question,  the very first thing that came to mind, of ALL the other possibilities was "swimming,..especially in the ocean!"  It exhilirates and exhaustes you!

Drop them both and  intentionally seek out REAL friends. (P.S.  Opposite of them).

Don't drink  soda pop. Try to steer clear of sugar, which I do fairly successfully.   Always have a generous portion of a vegetable or fruit with every meal.  Have a little protein with each meal, and I mean a little (2-6 ozs.),   to balance blood sugar and for sustaining energy.   Eggs, peanut butter,  chicken, seafood, mainly,   for the protein.   Downfall:  I LOVE real butter, and I use it regularly.   Even with heart disease in my family on both sides.   :-(  Exercise by power-walking, best for me in so many ways,  but am not consitent at the moment!)  Feelin' the need.............

I live in the U.S.. First  choice by far is Ireland, then Canada, Scotland, Switzerland, and England, Might change with the ability to visit more abroad! Being in a foreign speaking country is a bit intimidating to think of actually living and working there.  What the heck, though, enjoy a challenge in life!  You never know where it might lead.

You know that of all the five senses, smell immediately evokes the strongest and most primal or basic of memories.  For me, pine.  Christmas tree, freshly cut in the house. And being sent out to the cold woods with my younger sister and older brother to cut boughs of pine from live trees to adorn the entire entryway to our front porch and main doorway to the house. Wonderful scent and the magical feeling that was closely associated with that!   Also, the smell of my mother's perfume as she got ready to go out for the evening with my father, which happened infrequently,  and we kids were left at home.  Excited and loved it because it meant a time we weren't under the ever watchful eye of an adult.  Freedom!!!  And one very unpleasant memory I remember to this day, 40 yrs later.  Dinnertime, with pork chops frying in the pan and being served with applesause and the interior of the house was being repainted and the combination of the two very strong smells and adding the taste of the food with the oil-based paint smell in the house made me so sick.  But I was forced to eat my meal anyway.  Tough love?  Never forgot that very unpleasant experience.  One other; the faint  to strong smell of the ocean in my nostrils as a kid as we approached it from inland to spend a week camped beside the roaring Atlantic Ocean.  As kids we enjoyed it to the max and the smell of the salty ocean itself, fresh seafood being cooked over fires right on the beach , and the smell of suntan lotion,....all mingled together,.....uuuummmmm..

A trio......."Don't  Stop Believin' " (Journey),......"Always a Woman", (Billy Joel),......."Magic Man", (Heart). But so many to choose from!!     ;-- >

WOW,  that is sad.  Please come back when you can!!  We'll be waiting to hear back from you,..for you to come back into the fold!!  Whatever the reason,  we welcome you again, when you are ready!!

Completed college,  not been so self-centered  and  be riskier in  life,  in general.   Would be a lot more interesting long term and most likely would have gotten further in life!!