Oh, yea those close to me hate it. Everyone else seems fine cause they only see the professional side, so as far as they know, everything is just A OK Great!
Not only family but I have a high stress business to run and people counting on me! Thanks for taking the time to write that out though.
In reality, all you write is correct generally. This wasn't intended to be a mini-therapy session, but for what it's worth the same message you state: "Happiness comes from inside" has been repeated to me literally as far back as I can remember. It's not practical though.
I've had probably a dozen therapists over the years, found mentors I looked up to, tried to find meaningful relationships with peers, studied what fulfillment is etc...A few years ago I came to the conclusion that searching for "happiness" in all of these things was just not working. And beyond that the fact of the search turning up dry is a compounding problem.
I'm not sure what happened, but as Rodney Dangerfield called it "The Heaviness[1]" is getting bigger.
But I've spent some time on the road you're describing, and I know it's a dead end road.
I'm curious what "road" that is?
waste all of the time and beautiful experiences and memories that you could be accumulating
Is there value in accumulating experiences? I mean I've accumulated a shitload of them, the problem is there isn't anything to do with them. It's like saving Polaroids. Is there a reason to other than looking at them again for a serotonin bump?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdjYmhrA-A
Not only family but I have a high stress business to run and people counting on me! Thanks for taking the time to write that out though.
In reality, all you write is correct generally. This wasn't intended to be a mini-therapy session, but for what it's worth the same message you state: "Happiness comes from inside" has been repeated to me literally as far back as I can remember. It's not practical though.
I've had probably a dozen therapists over the years, found mentors I looked up to, tried to find meaningful relationships with peers, studied what fulfillment is etc...A few years ago I came to the conclusion that searching for "happiness" in all of these things was just not working. And beyond that the fact of the search turning up dry is a compounding problem.
I'm not sure what happened, but as Rodney Dangerfield called it "The Heaviness[1]" is getting bigger.
But I've spent some time on the road you're describing, and I know it's a dead end road.
I'm curious what "road" that is?
waste all of the time and beautiful experiences and memories that you could be accumulating
Is there value in accumulating experiences? I mean I've accumulated a shitload of them, the problem is there isn't anything to do with them. It's like saving Polaroids. Is there a reason to other than looking at them again for a serotonin bump?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdjYmhrA-A