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How can I be happy, knowing I can never learn or read everything online? Why on earth do you think you would be happy if you read everything online? Let alone
by yesenadam 8y ago
How can I be happy, knowing I can never learn or read everything online?
Why on earth do you think you would be happy if you read everything online? Let alone learn everything "the world has to offer"? (Maybe those would be terrible, even if they were possible. It doesn't sound like you've tried to imagine it.)
Maybe I misunderstand you. There does seem to be something very wrong with your thinking on this subject though. You could try to find out what that is. (Asking on here is a step towards that!) There seem a few false assumptions buried in your questions. Have you done much reading to learn about yourself, self-help, wisdom literature etc, or is it..just facts/non-fiction that you want to read?
Personally, it's very frustrating to me when I think that in my teens, there was nowhere to get every movie, book, music ever for free, instantly, as there is now. My life would've been so different. Better? I don't know. But I'm so grateful to be able to hear/read about a book/movie/scientific paper/recording and download it pretty much instantly. It's incredible. I didn't dream that would ever be possible. I lived on a farm outside a country town and I could get virtually nothing of anything. Well, I got a few things, and I really valued them!! I wonder about kids growing up today with everything available, and how they can value any one thing....it really changes everything.
- yesenadam 8y agoWhat I forgot to say explicitly, is - be grateful. Make a list of the things you are grateful for. Spend more time feeling grateful for the things you have in your life, less or none feeling bad--- torturing yourself---over the things you don't have. Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is master of the whole world. - Epicurus
- gitgud 8y agoThat's a good point you made above, now that all information is at our finger tips, it's hard to value any single piece... But we should value and take happiness in the fact that we can access any information so easily... That notion relaxes me, thank you for taking the time to write it.
- yesenadam 8y ago:-) You're welcome. Good luck! I have to go now to read the 5,000+ books and papers on my computer... Most of which I end up deleting to make space for more...