Some quotes from The happiness conspiracy
[‘Happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim,’ said Einstein. ‘I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. The ideals that have lighted my way are Kindness, Beauty and Truth.’ If we’ve become pigs at the happiness trough, it’s understandable. As higher systems of meaning have withered, life purpose has dwindled to feeling good. Innocence, the lifeblood of happiness, is obsolete.]
I laughed when I read through this sentence hahaha..
"We live on cultural soil perfectly suited for depression. Other happiness blockers include materialism, perpetual discontent, over-complication, hyper-competition, stress, rage, boredom, loneliness and existential confusion. We’re removed from nature, married to work, adrift from family and friends, spiritually starved, sleep deprived, physically unfit, dumbed down, and enslaved to debt. Health professionals face new epidemics of ‘hurry sickness’, ‘toxic success syndrome’, the ‘frantic family’, the ‘over-commercialized child’ and ‘pleonexia’ or out-of-control greed. Too much is no longer enough. Many are stretching themselves so far that they have difficulty feeling anything at all."
Feeling nothingness is kind of a problem for many people nowadays.
Those above-mentioned happiness blockers really relates to me,
as I also felt confusing to feel nothing at all, expectations getting higher,
pressure are increasing, over-stressed on many things...
it's like you can't feel anymore with so much of these external stress
I really wished I could do something about it.
Maybe being perfectionist is kind of hard to control greed,
it's like you need everything to be perfect in your life..blah blah blah...
well, I really should nudge myself do something for society,
maybe volunteering, joining outdoor activities in a group..
'cause i'm really sick of feeling nothingess, over-stressed
very nice essay about how happiness is being distorted
in consumerism and modernization
even though there are some terms
which is un-heard of for general readers,
like life-coaching, happiness campaigns...
the essay is still powerful with its ideas
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The happiness conspiracy
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