I figure there are a few things like happiness - things that should result from living the good life, and which we actually shouldn’t expect or demand, but rather just enjoy if (not when) they show up:
- riches
- love
- things I’ve ordered off of etsy or kickstarter
Source: NYT
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Happiness should be serendipitous, a by-product of a life well lived, and pursuing it in a vacuum doesn’t really work. This is borne out by a series of slightly depressing statistics. The most likely customer of a self-help book is a person who has bought another self-help book in the last 18 months. The General Social Survey, a prominent data-based barometer of American society, shows little change in happiness levels since 1972, when such records began.
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