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I read this post when it was originally put up, and I have to tell you that I got something entirely different out of what YzermanS19 wrote. To me, it was a treatise on what it takes to be happy, and wheter in knowing as much as we seem to know makes us unhappy.
My contention is that it doesn't. Happiness is, largely, independent of conditions. Consider all that we have in this world, yet so many people are unhappy. In YzermanS19's example, the indentured servant is happy despite his condition becuase he knows of nothing else. To me, this is evidence that we can be happy regardless of our condition. It's more about attitude.
"I'm convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." - Charles Swindoll
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