> If you're unhappy, you'll be be just as unhappy spending time with your family as you are spending time staring into a terminal. If this is coming from eithe

> If you're unhappy, you'll be be just as unhappy spending time with your family as you are spending time staring into a terminal. If this is coming from either Buddhist or Stoic traditions, both of those strongly emphasize practice and right action. You achieve a calm flow of happiness through right thought and right deed. Maintaining peace in chaos or pain doesn't mean chaos and pain are indistinguishable from other external circumstances, even to a Ruling Mind. There are excellent reasons for traditions of monasticism to exist, for instance, and to often prescribe activities and mandate separation from common sources of chaos and distraction. There's such a thing as doing enlightenment on Hard Mode, and practically nobody can manage that. Thought and deed, and circumstances that tend to come about by right deed and by choices made in attempting to bring about a calm state of being, are vital to long-term practice. Neither tradition is delusional, in this way.