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happiness is not the goal. meaning is.

• SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  What's the point if you're not happy? Fulfilling your meaning and being utterly miserable seems like a goal I want to avoid. Unless meaning will lead to happiness, at which point happiness is again the goal.
  • thedaemon 8y ago
    Life is suffering. Life is not happiness. Best you figure that out now. We have birthday parties and celebrations all the time. Why? Because life is miserable and we should take every opportunity to celebrate when we can.
    • leesec 8y ago
      Damn, hope you can find some happiness bud. I assure you not everyone thinks 'life is miserable'. I think life is awesome.
      • metabagel 8y ago
        Life is both awesome and miserable.
        • ionised 8y ago
          It is, but to me it seems heavily weighted in favour of the miserable side.
    • SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
      > Life is suffering. Life is not happiness. Best you figure that out now. Well, that's wonderfully patronizing. >We have birthday parties and celebrations all the time. Why? Because life is miserable and we should take every opportunity to celebrate when we can. So finding reasons and opportunities to be happy is the goal?
      • thedaemon 8y ago
        I didn't mean to sound patronizing. "The pursuit of happiness." There is a reason it doesn't say happiness. Choosing your own happiness, yes that sounds like a pretty good goal to me. One of the original replies here does talk about choosing to be happy. Which is of course how you become happy when you have no outside influences to make you happy.