Pursuing external validation in whichever form will never bring true happiness. Things that might have been important a thousand years ago and will probably be

Pursuing external validation in whichever form will never bring true happiness. Things that might have been important a thousand years ago and will probably be important to people a thousand years in the future probably translate to happiness People and marketing mix happiness with joyfulness, which fades into emptiness thus requiring increasingly stronger stimulants. One test of happiness might be sitting on the grass looking at e.g. the trees or the sea for one hour. If you can't, you are stressed. If you can for ten hours you are depressed.