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Originally Posted by alansmithee
There's too many things wrong in the world for anyone with any intelligence to have lasting happiness. So I (as someone who consideres himself to have some intelligence) gave up on lasting happiness a long time ago. Sometimes I think I might've made the wrong choice, but I can't go back. I just don't see happiness being in the picture; happiness is a final state, it means you are content with things. I'll be happy when I'm dead. Until then, there's always something that can be improved/changed/accomplished.
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- There is bad and there is good in the world. A child dies a child is born. Love is lost because love was won.
- Happiness by nature does not last. It's a chemical process in one's brain. The cognitive state is being content or calm which is not quite the same but comprable.
- Happiness is not found in the past or the future but in the only moment we actually exist - which is now. So it's not a final state, it's the current state.
- You make goals sound like a bad thing. The jurney is part of the adventure, without it our destinations would be meaningless.
If one achieves everything one wanted to perfection. One would be so very bored.
Ok, yah I know, allot of half-full mumbo jumbo but I believe it. It's the existentialist in me.
Guilda, it sounds clinical but I am no doc. Does your therapist recomend drugs?