Is anyone ever actually content and happy forever? Can you reach

Poor pople definitely don't live better than kings. They have to spend at least half their waking hrs working a shit job constantly getting disrespected.

Yeah get a good life and you will be content. I am. Still have things I want. Don't eat myself up about it though.

>>18024233
Let's be honest. Happiness is just lack of boredom while depression is perpetual boredom. The only way to be truly happy is to always have something fun to do. Fortunately, the world is filled with billions of things to do, so go out there and get things done

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people think they get happiness from achieving things. the truth is you get it from setting a goal and working towards it. When you achieve your goal, you're happy for a little bit, and then you start to look for something else.
We're built to strive for things. not to sit around and wallow in undeserved pleasure.

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>>18024233

Humans are complicated. Life is a mystery. Do the best you can and then die. Don't waste time with unanswerable questions.

>>18024256
Thanks I think you're right, I've been learning this a lot more. I've fallen for the trap of caring about the destination. It's the journey itself that matters

>>18024260
Thanks anon

>>18024256
If you do gain pleasure from your achievements, how is that "undeserved" given they're the fruits of your effort?

>>18024233
no nothing lasts forever. age steals all happyness in time. my grandparents were very happy, had a love so deep you could see it in every moment they spent together. they had lots of children and got to grow old together. then my grandfather got cancer and got so sick. he waisted away to nothing then died. my grandmother is so sad and lonely now it. they had a happy amazing life together and it all came crumbling down around them within a few short months.

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It's important to understand that other people are not permanent fixations in your life, ever. Memories can be.

If you find self-uplift in the unachievable, you'll never feel accomplishment. Try to...
The fuck am I saying, I'm depressed as all hell. Well, I'd say feeling less stress, feeling like you have friends, having a solid job, and deleting anything from your life that saps your energy. Fill it with positive shit. Smoke a cigarette when you have to. Try to keep it to one a day, or less. Try new things.

I may not be the happiest, but these things seem to be helping me lately.

Oh.. and remember that some humans in your life, even if they are called friends and mean well, are harmful. Remove them. Find other friends.

>>18024233
>Is anyone ever actually content and happy forever?
stopped there

no dumbass

>>18024319

that's not what I implied.

To sit around and ingratiate yourself with video games, porn, drugs etc. is what I was referring to.

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Yes, you actually have all of the requirements to be happy in this moment right now. But you are brainwashed by a material society. Al you must do is conquer your insatiability. Go study the Buddha and meditate, then come back.

>>18024362
That is hedonism. The problem is that humans adjust to any new pleasure, such that it becomes boring, and you seek more intense highs to be stimulated. The only solution is by escaping the hedonic treadmill by seeking contentment.