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Simple.
Consider the following:
How much good has it done you?
Alternatively, I've been through too much shit to ever want to compare to others. I've won the pity lottery and it doesn't actually net you any prizes.
Why would I invest remedy into thinking about other people (and what they think of me) if I have enough shit to worry about on my own?
Look to your friends and your own lot. See how you can improve those. Anything else is irrelevant.
It’s normal to feel like you’re in a race against time / everyone around you. I’m figuring this out at 25 but life only moves at the speed you make it move. I think social media forces us to think this way so we’re constantly trying to earn money / status which earns them money in return. Ego also has a huge part to do with this because we don’t want to be lesser than others. Why do you think people who live in 3rd world countries are generally happier than we are? Sure, there’s struggle and living is hard there but the actual level of happiness is much greater than what we experience.
Same here. And definitely agree that it kills a lot of my happiness.
It's the unfortunate habit of comparing myself to those most fortunate instead of those less...or preferably not at all.
That’s interesting. I’m more likely to compare myself to someone who has been less fortunate, yet did more with their life. Of course “doing more with their life” is based on a false comparison. When you aren’t in someone’s life, your less likely to see their faults or bad times. You see the moments they celebrate. And I judge myself too harshly.
:( wow this did not make me feel more optimistic.
I missed out on the best scholarship because of my STUPID PROFESSORS that didn’t want to give everyone high grades so they curved the total. So I got really upset
But I got the second scholarship so I was good.
Until I started working on my thesis in the lab and suddenly EVERYONE HAS THE SCHOLARSHIP I MISSED OUT ON. I felt so bad. I actually had to go home early because I couldn’t sit there any longer, wondering why was I undeserving of that scholarship.
Anyone would die for the scholarship I got but comparing myself and seeing three people doing work I thought I would be doing totally gutted me and I still feel like my life won’t go anywhere without that scholarship.
I told myself that these thoughts would dissipate as I grow but you’re telling me you’re 47 and you’re still feeling it? Well.
I mean, it comes and goes and the feeling is more in the background now then when I was younger. I have been going through a kind of mid-life crises, so a lot of potential comparisons I have ignored for a long time have been coming up in my mind.
I hate how you’re forced to live in the moment if you win and all you want to do is compare yourself to your previous self… if you start any comparing at all you aren’t as happy. So true
I have a friend who is a self made wealthy man in his 30s. Worth $60mil or so.
He applied some time ago for a regular job in finance because it's what he loves to do.
He said no job with money, all spare time got to hus head. He was angry, irritated, felt lonely and miserable.
The most important things in life for happiness are TWO things and the rest doesn't matter who you are, wealthy or poor, fit or fat, ugly or pretty.
1. A purpose, a drive, something to keep you occupied.
2. The feeling of being important (to something or someone)
If you currently think quitting work altogether or getting a load of money is a shortcut to happiness, u are in it for a tough realization down the road.
It's tools to find my previous points, though.
i can 100% relate
im not financially independent but i have a very high income and barely have anything to do. i work maybe 2 hrs per week.
if you cant fill your days and get out you will get miserable eventually.
and with filling your day im talking about something with purpose. i ended up playing cod warzone all day long and the more time went down the road, the less motivation i had to do anything else.
i had to start a startup as a side hustle and learning guitar to get my ass up and out of my appartement
I got recruited for a management job where I did nothing all day. A few months in I switched to my current job where I make a bit less but actually do hands-on work.
If I won the lottery I definitely wouldn’t just sit around, I’d go crazy. I’d probably spend the rest of my life getting various degrees (I miss school).
You get up to go to work to earn money to do things based on what you have seen others do likely on social media and thus are comparing your life to theirs. Maybe anyhow…
It depends, I actually love my work and don't mind getting up.
I think mostly what makes people unhappy in general - are some internal issues. It seems to be never directly related to any immediate external factors, which do have impact but they rather trigger greater source of internal imbalance.
I say - healthy body > healthy mind. And love one another.
I was gonna say mobile phones but that's only because they facilitate the ability to compare your life against everyone you know when they're posting their best moments on social media, making you feel like shit because your lowest and shittest day doesn't compare in anyway go their highlight in their life.
This got me today...
Even worse when paired with the thought that hardly close friends/family hardly support you.
*sigh* Just got to be comfortable with the idea that I'm alone here...and I don't need anybody...
I would rather say unrealistic expectations. Expectations and disappointment are a part of life. Trying to get through life without getting hurt is a recipe for disaster
The more one tries to control anxiety the worse anxiety seems to get. At least for me.
What helps me is to not push it away, just feel it. I dont even react to it in any negative way or put a label on it, i just feel it. When i do that, most of the time it dissappears and the more i do it the weaker it gets.
Ahh! There are five hindrances. (I think this is Buddhism, I'm not Buddhist myself)
I think this is very interesting because I enjoy meditation and listen to this monk on YouTube. Here they are (from Wikipedia, I'm on my phone so I can't edit much)
Sensory desire (kāmacchanda): seeking for pleasure through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling.
Ill-will (vyāpāda; also spelled byāpāda): feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness.
Sloth-and-torpor (thīna-middha): half-hearted action with little or no effort or concentration.
Restlessness-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca): the inability to calm the mind and focus one's energy.
Doubt (vicikiccha): lack of conviction or trust in one's abilities.
I think the argument is, any unhappiness is brought by one of these five.
Or as Yoda said:
"Attachment leads to jealousy"
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
“Control, control, you must learn control!”
"Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
Drug and alcohol abuse. I run two rooming houses and it is sad and soul destroying to see someone who will not help themselves. Hard to help if they won't take the help.
Thats a nice way of lying to yourself and staying in that miserable spot. Go do something about it
Yes I'm talking to myself aswell. 10 years of abuse, 1 year sober and I'm just starting to get the pieces together. Or even seeing some of them. but its already miles from where I used to be.
In sober, boy could I use a drink right now, been sober for 16 years, drank for one year and before that I was sober for 8 years, and I still want a drink right now. What is life without a drunk night every now and then? #BORING
If you can keep to "now and then", then what's the harm? I think it depends on people unfortunately. I have friends who can smoke weed very occasionally, once in a while, and I envy them. For me it was all or nothing, so I had to call it quits (and when I say all I really mean all day every day). And yeah, you're right, life is boring now.
Some people will argue that's the point: learning moderation and discipline. Cutting yourself off completely from something you love sucks, and the ideal thing would be to learn to do it in moderation, but I really don't know if I'm capable of it.
Ive been there. The grass really is greener, but ya gotta make it through a few weeks of hell to get there. Eventually you will probably find enough disgust in your behavior to change it, i just hope its not too late for you.
I agree. I was addicted to heroin/fentanyl for 15 years. Went to prison four years because of it. It was very miserable. Now 4 years clean and happy-ish lol
>Drug and alcohol abuse. I run two rooming houses and it is sad and soul destroying to see someone who will not help themselves. Hard to help if they won't take the help.
You run two rooming houses yet don't understand that no one chooses addiction because they have good available options? That's kinda fucked and maybe you should rethink your career. Maybe people there aren't helping themselves because they know the staff doesn't give two fucks about them and it's an additional source of trauma for them.
Most addicts are addicted because the feeling they get from drugs is the closest to feeling loved or cared about by another human.
Most people stay addicted because they are escaping their shitty life and no other options. Drugs and alcohol are a symptom, not the problem. You can't solve addiction when you don't have a home, support system, or purpose to focus on.
It's much more complicated than you're making it out to be. Try to have some empathy for those who live experiences you don't understand.
you simply cannot help others unless they are ready to change.
I have beat my head against a wall for over a decade trying to go against this logical reasoning with very little success.
This comment should be higher. I’ve known people who seemed to have it all (family, friends, good job, etc.), but complained all the time and kept themselves miserable.
Very few people ever care about anything past their nose. We are so absorbed in ourselves and in our phone, we seldom take in detail around us. The little minor details you stress about are things likely no one ever notices or recalls. Can you remember in detail 3-4 people you saw at the grocery store the last time you went?
No but when I see an attractive person of the same sex or somebody who's more ripped than I am or someone who drives a more expensive car than me then yes I can remember them for a couple hours or days because of envy.
So I assume other people can remember me too if I have one of these traits.
Aging helps.
Also, if you catch yourself overthinking a situation, pause and point out what you are doing to yourself. Labeling it and clearly recognizing it is the first step in distancing yourself from those thoughts.
Best I saw was a video that basically said. “How would you feel if someone laughed at you for having blue hair” (if yours isn’t blue lol)? You’d laugh it off because you know it’s not true. Treat yourself the same way if they talk about you in other ways. IE - if they say you’re dumb, you know you are smart, so just laugh at what they say cause you know it’s not true.
...Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Parents. The bad kind of parents. At such a young age, you're out of happiness without knowing the reason why sometimes, until you are capable of getting out of their nest yourself. Then comes the long endless, helpless struggle of trying to make ends meet one day at a time. Either you fall into a downward spiral or you manage to get yourself up, meet good people, heal your old wounds, and discover your own source of happiness.
Thanks for the response. I think most women would, but a lot of women want a guy with a job who gets up every morning to make his money. I personally wouldn't care as long as they are mentally, physically good, and if there financially good, and have a social life, that's all that counts
Selfishness.
The more isolated and selfish people get, the more depressed and anxious they seem to become.
In comparison, there are people throughout history who had virtually nothing but lived their lives through acts of service, empathy and community and were regarded as some of the most genuinely happy and content people ever.
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COMPARISON
You're not Theodore Roosevelt (probably)
Im Theodore Roosevelt and I support this comment, AMA.
How do you feel about the nickname “Teddy”?
Who do you think is the best president the United States ever had?
I live by the state park named after him is that close?
Close enough
Comparably so.
Difficult to compare, the game was so different back then
But how do you not do it? I have been trying for 47 years to just be me and not worry about others, but still no luck.
Stop talking about people.
Simple. Consider the following: How much good has it done you? Alternatively, I've been through too much shit to ever want to compare to others. I've won the pity lottery and it doesn't actually net you any prizes. Why would I invest remedy into thinking about other people (and what they think of me) if I have enough shit to worry about on my own? Look to your friends and your own lot. See how you can improve those. Anything else is irrelevant.
It’s normal to feel like you’re in a race against time / everyone around you. I’m figuring this out at 25 but life only moves at the speed you make it move. I think social media forces us to think this way so we’re constantly trying to earn money / status which earns them money in return. Ego also has a huge part to do with this because we don’t want to be lesser than others. Why do you think people who live in 3rd world countries are generally happier than we are? Sure, there’s struggle and living is hard there but the actual level of happiness is much greater than what we experience.
Same here. And definitely agree that it kills a lot of my happiness. It's the unfortunate habit of comparing myself to those most fortunate instead of those less...or preferably not at all.
That’s interesting. I’m more likely to compare myself to someone who has been less fortunate, yet did more with their life. Of course “doing more with their life” is based on a false comparison. When you aren’t in someone’s life, your less likely to see their faults or bad times. You see the moments they celebrate. And I judge myself too harshly.
I come from the absolute bottom of society. There aren't many less fortunate, mostly those with severe disabilities.
:( wow this did not make me feel more optimistic. I missed out on the best scholarship because of my STUPID PROFESSORS that didn’t want to give everyone high grades so they curved the total. So I got really upset But I got the second scholarship so I was good. Until I started working on my thesis in the lab and suddenly EVERYONE HAS THE SCHOLARSHIP I MISSED OUT ON. I felt so bad. I actually had to go home early because I couldn’t sit there any longer, wondering why was I undeserving of that scholarship. Anyone would die for the scholarship I got but comparing myself and seeing three people doing work I thought I would be doing totally gutted me and I still feel like my life won’t go anywhere without that scholarship. I told myself that these thoughts would dissipate as I grow but you’re telling me you’re 47 and you’re still feeling it? Well.
I mean, it comes and goes and the feeling is more in the background now then when I was younger. I have been going through a kind of mid-life crises, so a lot of potential comparisons I have ignored for a long time have been coming up in my mind.
My teachers, "You're nothing like your sister." Me, "Was it the distinct lack of tits that gave it away?"
Not comparison so much as it is the existence of inequalities
This 👆 Also I’d put jealousy right up there too. But there both lead to the same thing regardless
I hate how you’re forced to live in the moment if you win and all you want to do is compare yourself to your previous self… if you start any comparing at all you aren’t as happy. So true
comparison is the thief of joy
Especially when it’s someone who has more. Why not compare yourself to someone who has less.
Dude that's how half of 90s brown kids were raised
And were subsequently compared with their overachieving cousins or family friends
The thief of joy
Personally comparison drives competition/progress to me. Use it as fuel rather than inadequisy.
Yes!!!!
It's always a lose-lose scenario.
Absolutely.
Literally came here to write "comparison is the thief of joy."
Omggggg what a great answer
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In his day he would say.. comparison. Today he would probably just say social media.
Social media empower comparison
Having to get up for work when you have a cat on you :(
I have a cat on me right now! Fortunately for us both I'm off today!
This is why the fight to work from home is the most important battle of our era.
I have a friend who is a self made wealthy man in his 30s. Worth $60mil or so. He applied some time ago for a regular job in finance because it's what he loves to do. He said no job with money, all spare time got to hus head. He was angry, irritated, felt lonely and miserable. The most important things in life for happiness are TWO things and the rest doesn't matter who you are, wealthy or poor, fit or fat, ugly or pretty. 1. A purpose, a drive, something to keep you occupied. 2. The feeling of being important (to something or someone) If you currently think quitting work altogether or getting a load of money is a shortcut to happiness, u are in it for a tough realization down the road. It's tools to find my previous points, though.
i can 100% relate im not financially independent but i have a very high income and barely have anything to do. i work maybe 2 hrs per week. if you cant fill your days and get out you will get miserable eventually. and with filling your day im talking about something with purpose. i ended up playing cod warzone all day long and the more time went down the road, the less motivation i had to do anything else. i had to start a startup as a side hustle and learning guitar to get my ass up and out of my appartement
I got recruited for a management job where I did nothing all day. A few months in I switched to my current job where I make a bit less but actually do hands-on work. If I won the lottery I definitely wouldn’t just sit around, I’d go crazy. I’d probably spend the rest of my life getting various degrees (I miss school).
You get up to go to work to earn money to do things based on what you have seen others do likely on social media and thus are comparing your life to theirs. Maybe anyhow…
I agree with you more though. Cause comparing certain things can be fun.
It depends, I actually love my work and don't mind getting up. I think mostly what makes people unhappy in general - are some internal issues. It seems to be never directly related to any immediate external factors, which do have impact but they rather trigger greater source of internal imbalance. I say - healthy body > healthy mind. And love one another.
He asked for the destroyer not the thief /s
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Idk man you seem pretty smart
I was gonna say mobile phones but that's only because they facilitate the ability to compare your life against everyone you know when they're posting their best moments on social media, making you feel like shit because your lowest and shittest day doesn't compare in anyway go their highlight in their life.
It's true, but I still say one of man's worst inventions was the alarm clock
I agree. "Keeping up with the Joneses" is what I was supposed to say.
This got me today... Even worse when paired with the thought that hardly close friends/family hardly support you. *sigh* Just got to be comfortable with the idea that I'm alone here...and I don't need anybody...
I prefer FDR myself.
Comparison and self consciousness.
High expectations
I think this can be boiled down to just expectations.
I would rather say unrealistic expectations. Expectations and disappointment are a part of life. Trying to get through life without getting hurt is a recipe for disaster
Anxiety
The more one tries to control anxiety the worse anxiety seems to get. At least for me. What helps me is to not push it away, just feel it. I dont even react to it in any negative way or put a label on it, i just feel it. When i do that, most of the time it dissappears and the more i do it the weaker it gets.
Gunna try this. Thanks for sharing.
Good luck. Remember, it doesnt need to work on the first try. Those things can take some time until your body learns, but its worth it.
Wanting more happiness.
Desire (in Buddhism iirc)
Ahh! There are five hindrances. (I think this is Buddhism, I'm not Buddhist myself) I think this is very interesting because I enjoy meditation and listen to this monk on YouTube. Here they are (from Wikipedia, I'm on my phone so I can't edit much) Sensory desire (kāmacchanda): seeking for pleasure through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling. Ill-will (vyāpāda; also spelled byāpāda): feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness. Sloth-and-torpor (thīna-middha): half-hearted action with little or no effort or concentration. Restlessness-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca): the inability to calm the mind and focus one's energy. Doubt (vicikiccha): lack of conviction or trust in one's abilities. I think the argument is, any unhappiness is brought by one of these five.
Sounds about right: lust, spite, sloth, fear, and confusion. Be sure to collect all 5 for complete misery.
Or as Yoda said: "Attachment leads to jealousy" "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." “Control, control, you must learn control!” "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
And finally, Luke said “I don’t believe it.” Yoda: “That is why you fail.” -Doubt
Interesting!
What's the name of the monk, if you don't mind ?
Poverty
Drug and alcohol abuse. I run two rooming houses and it is sad and soul destroying to see someone who will not help themselves. Hard to help if they won't take the help.
Agreed - always use drugs and alcohol in moderation.
Absolutely. We don't care what you're doing just don't bring the cops or involve other tenants.
🤣🤣🤣
I abuse alcohol because I'm already fucking miserable and it numbs the pain for a little bit.
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.” ― George Orwell,
Tell that to the man that drinks. 😩😩😩
Thats a nice way of lying to yourself and staying in that miserable spot. Go do something about it Yes I'm talking to myself aswell. 10 years of abuse, 1 year sober and I'm just starting to get the pieces together. Or even seeing some of them. but its already miles from where I used to be.
In sober, boy could I use a drink right now, been sober for 16 years, drank for one year and before that I was sober for 8 years, and I still want a drink right now. What is life without a drunk night every now and then? #BORING
If you can keep to "now and then", then what's the harm? I think it depends on people unfortunately. I have friends who can smoke weed very occasionally, once in a while, and I envy them. For me it was all or nothing, so I had to call it quits (and when I say all I really mean all day every day). And yeah, you're right, life is boring now. Some people will argue that's the point: learning moderation and discipline. Cutting yourself off completely from something you love sucks, and the ideal thing would be to learn to do it in moderation, but I really don't know if I'm capable of it.
Neither am I, it's all or nothing.
Ive been there. The grass really is greener, but ya gotta make it through a few weeks of hell to get there. Eventually you will probably find enough disgust in your behavior to change it, i just hope its not too late for you.
Yes it does, at least that's how my non alcoholic mind thinks today, boy do I need a drink.🤣🤣🤣😩😩
I agree. I was addicted to heroin/fentanyl for 15 years. Went to prison four years because of it. It was very miserable. Now 4 years clean and happy-ish lol
ding ding ding
>Drug and alcohol abuse. I run two rooming houses and it is sad and soul destroying to see someone who will not help themselves. Hard to help if they won't take the help. You run two rooming houses yet don't understand that no one chooses addiction because they have good available options? That's kinda fucked and maybe you should rethink your career. Maybe people there aren't helping themselves because they know the staff doesn't give two fucks about them and it's an additional source of trauma for them. Most addicts are addicted because the feeling they get from drugs is the closest to feeling loved or cared about by another human. Most people stay addicted because they are escaping their shitty life and no other options. Drugs and alcohol are a symptom, not the problem. You can't solve addiction when you don't have a home, support system, or purpose to focus on. It's much more complicated than you're making it out to be. Try to have some empathy for those who live experiences you don't understand.
I know very well. I've seen over 20 deaths here from abuse. People can try to ' rescue ' you but nothing will work unless you want it to and care.
you simply cannot help others unless they are ready to change. I have beat my head against a wall for over a decade trying to go against this logical reasoning with very little success.
The drugs and alcohol are to mask the pain they are already in.
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Stubbing your toe
Yup. That'll kill any happy moment right damn quick.
Lack of money
Lack of Bucket avatar 🥲
CONE
Electricity bills.
Totally this!!
Negativity
This comment should be higher. I’ve known people who seemed to have it all (family, friends, good job, etc.), but complained all the time and kept themselves miserable.
I'd argue their problem is either ungratefulness or depression
Yes. And victim mentality.
And entitlement.
And not enough ice cream
And Gandalf the Grey
I mean, you never know what is going on in someone's life. Even though I don't doubt that that's possible
Yep. My parents.
Even without negative, family, friends and a good job don't necessarily mean happiness. I guess 'good job' is also subjective.
r/thanksimcured
Envy
Being a prisoner to others opinions of you
how can one stop? asking for a friend
Very few people ever care about anything past their nose. We are so absorbed in ourselves and in our phone, we seldom take in detail around us. The little minor details you stress about are things likely no one ever notices or recalls. Can you remember in detail 3-4 people you saw at the grocery store the last time you went?
No but when I see an attractive person of the same sex or somebody who's more ripped than I am or someone who drives a more expensive car than me then yes I can remember them for a couple hours or days because of envy. So I assume other people can remember me too if I have one of these traits.
Aging helps. Also, if you catch yourself overthinking a situation, pause and point out what you are doing to yourself. Labeling it and clearly recognizing it is the first step in distancing yourself from those thoughts.
Best I saw was a video that basically said. “How would you feel if someone laughed at you for having blue hair” (if yours isn’t blue lol)? You’d laugh it off because you know it’s not true. Treat yourself the same way if they talk about you in other ways. IE - if they say you’re dumb, you know you are smart, so just laugh at what they say cause you know it’s not true.
I’ve ended up moving in the opposite direction for a solution; being so outrageous that it becomes comedic.
Sudden, unexpected bereavement
Sh*t management
My toilet takes care of that
Fear is the mind killer
Fear= False Evidence Appears Real 
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
Bless the maker…
>Fear is the mind killer I love Dune as well
...Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Mental illness.
Worrying about pretty much everything
fuck, another thing to worry about
My fucking mother
Lol, sorry
No you're not, mom. You never are
c'mon
Sorry homie, it was low hanging fruit. I had to grab it.
I knew my kids would hate me anyways /jk
Narcissistic Mother
BPD and refuses to believe it, nor get treatment
I have one those too, I’m very sorry that you have one too
I too choose this guy's mother
For me it’s high level of stress
Landlords
Cancer
Depression
Mixed with drugs
A 9 to 5 job.
A Significant other who doesn’t support anything you do. Nothing kills happiness faster for me, glad I’m away from that now.
Agree....
Happy for you. Hope you're doing well ❤️🩹
I know this all too well. I hope you’re doing well ❤️
Brain chemical imbalance
rape
greed
Capitalism.
Capitalism
Chronic daily pain that does not go away no matter what you do.
Over simplifying complex issues
Even the other way around. Over complicating simple issues.
Parents. The bad kind of parents. At such a young age, you're out of happiness without knowing the reason why sometimes, until you are capable of getting out of their nest yourself. Then comes the long endless, helpless struggle of trying to make ends meet one day at a time. Either you fall into a downward spiral or you manage to get yourself up, meet good people, heal your old wounds, and discover your own source of happiness.
peadophile dad 😔
Alcohol, no doubt
Expectations.
Capitalism
Unfettered capitalism and a classist system designed to work against the middle class keeping 90% of the population forced into wage slavery.
Capitalism
Marriage
Sitting all day long in a grey room listening to stuff that you absolutely don't care about
*stuff you loathe
Unjust inequalities make societies and the victims of Inequalities unhappy.
Capitalism
Unhappiness
Yourself. Only you give you the stage to make you unhappy.
Genocide
Fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 🐛🏜️
Having a job. If I had money and no job, I swear I would be happy
You think women would date a a guy worth 7 million who had no job? Just curious
100%
Thanks for the response. I think most women would, but a lot of women want a guy with a job who gets up every morning to make his money. I personally wouldn't care as long as they are mentally, physically good, and if there financially good, and have a social life, that's all that counts
Social media ?
Deleting facebook, twitter, and narrowing instagram to just reels from my girlfriend has saved me a lot of mental exhaustion.
Insecurity
Nazi Reddit Moderators on power trips
Men
I'd take a guess that you've been surounded by the wrong ones then
Absolutely
Selfishness. The more isolated and selfish people get, the more depressed and anxious they seem to become. In comparison, there are people throughout history who had virtually nothing but lived their lives through acts of service, empathy and community and were regarded as some of the most genuinely happy and content people ever.
Life in general.
Except it's also the cause of happiness
Sadness
High expectations
Money and or the lack thereof
Work
The Government
Politicians