RE: Cynical view of happiness.
July 8, 2016 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2016 at 1:05 pm by SteveII.)
(July 8, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: I'm talking about the naive perception that being happy is a choice. When you've experienced an inability to be happy in life in spite of your great to desire to be and have exhausted every means you can think of to no avail, only then will you realize it isn't a choice. When everything is going fine it is easy to be fooled.
Then your problem seems to be with the pursuit of happiness. My point is you should pursue being content and happiness will follow. Of course you probably can't be content if basic needs are not getting met, but after that, it is a choice. Villagers in Aftrica in a hut can be content and therefore happy.
Significant loss (death of family or something like that) could be an impediment to being content but I think long term you could be content.
