If the purpose of being rich, a chad with a perfect jawline and maxilla, standing 6 feet 7 inches tall with a full head of hair, and having a 10/10 stacy gf is the happiness that comes with it, and the reduction of negative feelings in general while promiting positive ones, doesn't that mean that someone who is rich, a chad, has a nice house in a nice neighborhood, a 10/10 stacy wife, kids, and a perfect job, but who is constantly stressed, anxious, and full of problems trying to keep everything intact, and always wanting more things or wishing everything could be a little better, wouldn't that man be a loser?Whereas a virgin NEET incel enjoying the little he has, playing his games, listening to his music, doing his night walks, accepting what he has received with the greatest joy in the world, like a paraplegic who has managed to walk or a blind person who was begun to see for the first time, with zero stress, anxiety or worries, with no ambitions or desires beyond being grateful for what he has, wouldn't he be the true winner, since he has the highest positive balance of beneficial sensations and feelings?What if the perception itself, and the feelings that arise from it, even it's just coping, are more important than what you're perceiving or coping about? After all, is it better to have everything but be unhappy and never satisfied, or have nothing but be happy and content?What if we are the only ones standing in the way of our own happiness and our ability to enjoy what we have, and we think we need to have or be something in order to allow ourselves to be who we've always been able to be?
it seems i have left many speechless. I wasn't expecting that
>>84381578>What if the perception itself, and the feelings that arise from it, even it's just coping, are more important than what you're perceiving or coping about?>have nothing but be happy and content?I see coping with your grim existence and "learning to love it" as dangerous (because you could blink and many miserable years have gone by), lacking in conviction, and not being true to yourself. If the world starves you of what you always wanted, you try to better your situation or otherwise you should try to take it by force.
>>84382136>I see coping with your grim existence however, is it not you who decided to see it as grim, this, feel it as grim?>and "learning to love it" as dangerous (because you could blink and many miserable years have gone by)yet, is it not you who decided to see them as miserable?what is the difference between great years and miserable years, if they all pass anyway?if the conditions you were in make the years great, then, how come people with great conditions can still be miserable? conditions cannot be what make a year great >lacking in conviction, and not being true to yourself.do you not see it's you who feels the need for conviction and being true to "yourself"? why do you desire those things? for the feelings they arise? is conviction and trueness to your self-image a way to get something else or the end on itself? why do you feel the need to make that an end on itself?> If the world starves you of what you always wantedwhy did you always want something? what is the point?>you try to better your situation or otherwise you should try to take it by force.what is hoped to be achieved after all that suffering in the pursuit of it? pleasure from narcissism and ego worship? if so, the end goal is pleasure, which can be achieved much more simply with what you already haveyou can breathe, appreciate that you can walk, appreciate that. you can see, appreciate that.only a man spends his life seeking wealth, he enjoyed it once he achieves it, then it becomes normal, and taken for granted, like everything good he had before he got wealthy.only once he loses everything he desensitizes himself and see the value in what he already had, and pursuits it again. the suffering throughout the process of desire fulfillment is enormous, yet the pleasure from achieving it is temporary and limited
>>84381578Good luck coping with that. I could never, but maybe it works for you.
>>84381578That's assuming the goal of life is happiness which it's really not
>>84383310what is the goal of life?
>>84381578Yes, life is one long and idiotic hedonic treadmill of desire and frustration. Your brain will adapt to whatever new paradigm you find yourself in, and the suffering will never end. You're better off learning how your emotions trick you and trying to outsmart them.
>>84383370perhaps, there's a way out
