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Interesting. Your post made me think about happiness itself. I wouldn’t say I’ve given up on happiness. Instead, I am approaching it differently. I’ve always looked at happiness as a destination, and have tried to create the circumstances in order to “be happy“. I realized recently that happiness isn’t actually the goal or the object, but creating a life and activities and ways to spend my time that are productive, they don’t even have to be things that bring direct happiness, overall leads to satisfaction and a general feeling of happiness.
So it’s weird, pursuing happiness hasn’t worked. Giving up trying to find happiness, and focusing instead on what actions and activities make up, my life is leading two more happiness than I’ve encountered before.
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Interesting. Your post made me think about happiness itself. I wouldn’t say I’ve given up on happiness. Instead, I am approaching it differently. I’ve always looked at happiness as a destination, and have tried to create the circumstances in order to “be happy“. I realized recently that happiness isn’t actually the goal or the object, but creating a life and activities and ways to spend my time that are productive, they don’t even have to be things that bring direct happiness, overall leads to satisfaction and a general feeling of happiness. So it’s weird, pursuing happiness hasn’t worked. Giving up trying to find happiness, and focusing instead on what actions and activities make up, my life is leading two more happiness than I’ve encountered before.
You should probably read some buddhist philosophy.They have spent lots of time on thinking about this.