mismatched cups

A long time ago, back in the day, when we were young and in love and going to University, we had visitors.  My wife and I were living in a small unit in Randwick and both going to University, we somehow managed to live a fun life, without much money or things. 
My older sister Anne visited us one time, she was up in Sydney for work and brought along a guy she was having an affair with, not that i was judging.  I liked Donnie her partner and thought it was pretty slack going behind his back like this, as a guy you just think i wouldn't want this happening to me.  I think she brought Katie, her daughter as well this time and we may have been baby sitting her while the two of them went off somewhere.
We were all sitting down in our non-descript unit with minimum furniture and things and I was getting tea for everyone and we didn't have many cups.  I managed to scrounge enough cups to get everyone tea and we were just sitting on our old sofa and chairs and chatting.  Steff or I might have said something like, sorry for the cups all being different and odd.
Anne's affair guy, i think his name was Graham, quipped up, said something out of the blue, like "Don't ever change you guys"  Steff and i both said, "What do you mean".  He pointed to the cups we were having tea in and said "don't ever change from this", " Don't worry about ever getting sets of cups and saucers, cutlery."  "This is perfect, you don't need all that stuff and things"  I could sense that they saw that we had something back then, something intangible.  Happiness without the need of more things or things that matched, they were older and had probably set out attaining these things and perhaps realised that these were not the things that mattered. 
Here they were deep in this affair and perhaps thinking differently about their life and the choices they had made, including their current one.  Maybe they realised they could never go back from where they were now, to a simpler existence and they wanted us to stay where we were at this moment in time. To protect us from our wants. As it's simple bliss is one to envy.
Your life moves on though and you go through many different incarnations, you leave Uni, you earn more and more money and sure enough you attain at some point matching cup and saucer sets.  Although oddly enough, i still don't think we have 2 mugs that match. It's not just the matching cups, it's all the other things you keep wanting and neeeding.  You work to maintain this lifestyle and the lifestyle isn't really much of a life or style.  It's progress, It's life you can't stop and go back that would be weird. 
They were naive to think we would be happy to stay like that, or could even manage to do that successfully through our life and we would be just be this blissfully happy couple without a care for matching cups.
I do miss those days though, the setting out days, now we are just setting in.  The days of the metro (SMH pullout section) on a Friday, providing us free entertainment and movies.