How To Be Happy Anywhere

No wonder all great philosophers were depressive people.

" For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. " - Ecclesiastes 1:18

ignorance is bliss!

I don't think it's aging or knowledge as much as advertizing that's the problem. I am reasonably well off and get to drive a nice car, but I only get to drive one and improvements come out a lot faster than I can buy them. I never wanted a Yacht as a kid, but now I think it would be cool to have enough money to support a gigantic hole in the water for throwing money into. The president is just about irrelevant in my personal life but listen to a few attack adds and it's hard not to really care.

Luckily, I find I am a lot happier now that I stopped watching TV and installed an add blocker. And what really surprised me is changing how I look at people, my standard of what's good looking has literally changed now that I don't see the extremes pushed in my face all the time.

If you have the ability to improve the situation then you don't need to worry, but OTOH there's no need to worry if you don't, either.

"Contentedness" is a state you can choose to be in. You can recognise horrible events but you don't have to be unhappy over it.

I feel like thinking about how "the reality" is pretty good to convince yourself to feel better isn't the way to go. What if things aren't going well? What if there's war everywhere, does that means you must then be unhappy, that you can't be content?

Stake yourself not on fantasy, dreams, goals, people or events, but as it is. You still can have those things but having or not having them doesn't need to affect you.