A lot of former addicts often reminensce about their addiction days. Exposure to such a large maximum of happiness recalibrates life so that everything becomes

A lot of former addicts often reminensce about their addiction days. Exposure to such a large maximum of happiness recalibrates life so that everything becomes dull. Even if quality of increase in absolute terms, if the relative difference increases then the net effect is feeling poorer. In today's networked world perhaps this is the reason a lot of people feel dumb or not wealthy, it's just too easy to compare. For most people, society is the calibrating factor as most people do not have the luxury of having enough abundance to go through sufficient mid life crisis' to formulate a personal model of quality and individual agency. Life primarily is about A reason to live once you escape the survival scripts.