What do you when nothing in life makes you happy anymore?
You (me) have a job, a place to live, a car but nothing makes you happy besides taking a little pill for depression and anxiety that lifts your mood just a little bit and very temporarily. How can I find maybe even just a little joy in life, and I don't mean making money or anything like that. I just want to wake up everyday and feel fresh and just happy to be breathing and living and learn to appreciate life.
A life that was CONSTANTLY HAPPY was NOT a good life ?
The validity of the statement hinges entirely on one’s definition of a “good life.” If a “good life” means Holy or glorifying to God, then the person’s state of mind might not matter. A good life could be lived in complete happiness or complete misery. If a “good life” means experiencing the full range of human capacities then a life cannot be complete without both joy and sorrow. But by this definition, one could claim that a “good life” cannot be achieved without also committing acts of unspeakable evil. Economists are obsessed with up and down cycles which inspire the best of the human ingenuity and exercise inefficiencies out of the economy. To an economist, it is inconceivable that a person or society would remain in the upper end of a cycle forever, and if they did then the inefficiencies would build up to intolerable levels. Upward growth without a pause would lead to runaway inflation and unrestrained consumption. There is no such thing as a free lunch and a life that ended in uninterrupted prosperity would leave a terrible price for others to pay. Other economic concepts that can be brought to bear are the law of diminishing returns and marginal utility. In diminishing returns, the initial application of happiness will bring goodness to a person’s life but continuous happiness might actually be detrimental, resulting in a lack of incentive to pursue additional goals. With marginal utility, the person appreciates some happiness, but appreciates each additional day of happiness less and less. A down-cycle into unhappiness would lessen the damage done by “too much happiness” (diminishing returns) and would increase the marginal utility of happiness by creating a new perspective in its absence. Socialism is a good example of politicians offering workers happiness through entitlements. A person might live happily with health care, a home, income that is not dependent on economic productivity, and a free pass to a movie theatre once per week. But eventually entitlements such as these will consume a society’s wealth when distributed on a mass scale. Even though an individual lives their entire life in the happiness of social entitlement, the party must come to an end and those left alive when the system collapses in on itself will look back and accuse the deceased as having lived stupidly and without ambition or risk—not a good life at all.
Have you ever wanted to move somewhere new and start over?
I'm a sophomore in college right now. I ended up goign to a school that was my last choice and is only 40 min from my hometown. For the past year I haven't been feeling very happy with where I'm at. I feel a bit lost and I feel like i need to figure myself out...but I don't feel like I can do that here. I feel like i never really got that chance to start over and be on my own after high school bc i live so close to home. this place has been feeling more and more suffocating each day and i'm just not feeling motivated/challenged/happy. I have the chance to transfer to a different university next fall that is 5 hours away from where i'm currently at. I love the area it's in and i love the feeling of it. I don't know anyone there though so it'd be a completely fresh start. the idea of a fresh start is exciting, but also extremely scary. Does it sound like a good idea to go? Has anyone ever wanted/did move away somewhere new in order to start over?
My boyfriend wants to go somewhere and i dont want him to?
we love each other so much and we have a long distence relationship so we only get to see each other once a year. we have been together for almost 5 years. well he wants to go on this band thing to california. and i really dont want him to go because i wount even be able to talk to him. he asked me the other night if i wanted him to go and i said no. he said ok that he wount. but i know he does because last night he told me he would reather go to band thing then spend time with me this summer. i dont know what to do i love him so much and i put him ahead of everything in my life. he still says that if i say no he wount go but i know he wants to go. dont know what to do plz help!!!!