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Originally Posted by An Amateur  Its interesting that you consider it lying to yourself. It sounds like a very rationalistic way of thinking. Basically meaning you cannot trust the evidence of your own experience, senses, or even feelings? To me its a kind of extremism.
I agree with your last statement though. But is it the ability to identify needs and set goals that makes them happy or is it a trait of being happy, or even a self sustaining cycle? If it is a cycle how does one start the cycle if they are not in it?
It alright saying "I think that all you need is this...", but thats like saying all you need to be happy is to be happy. Enjoyment is inseperable linked with happiness. You don't get pleasure out of something and think, damn im miserable. |
Lying might be the wrong word. But if you believe hard enough that your reality is perfect, it will be, in your head. And that is what matters, at least for me. But demanding less from life is also good enough.
So according to me living in a mental hospital but being mentally in your own, perfect world is the perfect happiness. But I would never want to live that way. Us humans want to be valuable to other people. So my happiness, as a fairly non-egosentric person, is being happy in other people's eyes at the same time as I don't have any problems in my eyes.