Modern society does a pretty good job at selling the concept that the more money you have, the more powerful you are, and the more powerful you are, the more you’re able to get exactly what you want out of life to be happy.
Those who seek happiness in this way don’t realize how the “happiness” they strive for is not real happiness at all—it’s happiness and satisfaction that’s superficial and fake.Real happiness is not the absence of negativity; it’s not getting everything we want, either.
Fixating on the negative—what we don’t like, have, or want—makes achieving happiness impossible. Doing so figuratively and literally seals our minds off from healthy, productive thinking.
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