In the story of Chris McCandless, Chris moves around the country effecting the lives of many people, and then would move as soon as he felt his relationship with someone was getting too serious or real.  In fact, he did not believe that relationship with other people were necessary to live a good life.  In a letter he wrote he said “You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships.  God has placed it all around us.  It is in everything and anything we might experience.” He believed that “the joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences,” that “there is no greater joy than to have and endlessly changing horizon.”  (Krakauer, 37) While I agree that one does not need relationships with other people to be happy; I think he should have thought better at how he was effecting the lives of those around him.  He hurt almost everyone he knew, or got to know, by just leaving them without any explaination as soon as they grow fond of him.