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[Anonymous No.6391890]

at the end of the day.... life is depressing...

prove me wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjtqJ-VO38

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>>6391890
>This youtube again
No, OP. It's what you want it to be.

What did I win?

[DICKens !!x6RgUvCd5JJ No.6391928]

>>6391903
My heart.

[Anonymous No.6391978]

>>6391903
dfw would disagree :)

[Anonymous No.6391986]

Depression is a spook.

[Cocksuking tripfag cunt bitch (...) !IkNGc5PPwg No.6391998]

>>6391890
>implying I didn't just get a full ride scholarship to a top school

Lel mate

[Chipstopher Colubus !Vu3GKcozRY No.6391999]

because life itself can't contain abstract qualities. Depression is a word people use to describe a certain mood

[Anonymous No.6392013]

>>6391998
What school?

[Anonymous No.6392018]

>>6391890
>prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.6392041]

>>6392018
I'm so out of it, I can't tell if this is modded skyrim or irl.

[Anonymous No.6392079]

>>6391890
if you take all of history and all of modern events, there is a net-deficit in contentment, if you are ignorant of that, or if you can lie to yourself, life can look happy or okay, but it truly is not.

[Anonymous No.6392082]

Happiness does not have a great deal to do with one's philosophical positions (or even the reality they seek to represent).

I say this because I have discerned no relationship between philosophical outlooks individuals hold and their happiness.

It seems to be a disposition of habit more akin to learned skills like ice hockey or painting. Sure, one can be born with more or less potential to being happy, but all of us can learn how to develop it, and I think to a very high degree.

The cultivation of happiness is more empirical than anything. One learns what works and what doesn't by trying different things.

The worst thing you can do, though, is "try" something for a short while and then quickly shift to "trying" something else. This is a disastrous approach to life. You have to have some endurance and steadfastness to follow through with your happiness experiments.

I think a lot of people are miserable because they have no patience for these, and conclude after a few weeks or a few months of some change-of-habit that it's been a failure. Having done this repeatedly over the course of years, they conclude all such efforts are pointless.

They might conclude they are just essentially unhappy or that some constant philosophical position that has stayed with them through these short trial-runs is the source of unhappiness.

[Anonymous No.6392133]

>>6392082
2deep4me kek

[Anonymous No.6392139]

>>6392133

I think that if you read that (again?), you'll find it's not deep at all and is pretty practical and easy to grasp.

[Anonymous No.6392159]

>>6391890
Nah people just like to be sad is all
Humans crave suffering because it forces them to do something
Society was birthed through suffering

[Anonymous No.6392165]

>>6392082
>your happiness experiments
examples? I think that will elucidate your point

[Anonymous No.6392167]

>>6391890
>prove me wrong
But you're right.

[Anonymous No.6392171]

>>6392165

going sober, adding regular exercise into life, sleeping regular hours, reading more, enjoying nature, things like that.

I suppose they could also be, "doing drugs, being more sedentary, becoming socially isolated, etc." but I don't think anyone ever pursues these things as conscious routes to happiness so much as instinctive pursuits of more or less immediate pleasure.

[Anonymous No.6392176]

>>6392171

cont.

A huge portion of happiness involves self moderation, there's no getting around this fact.

[Anonymous No.6392267]

>>6392171
hm, that is an interesting idea

but, it seems to me that(at least in my case) there are a few central and vital life ingredients that if you are lacking these few things the 'experiments' are bound to fail or be unfulfilling even if you succeed.

There is a quote that i really like, "Everything simple is false. Everything which is complex is unusable." - Paul Valery, and it seems to apply now.