Addicted to Unhappiness
"Let's face it: Reality often stinks. People don't always act the way we would like them to act. This doesn't seem to be the best of all possible worlds. . . . Moreover, society often gets worse: seems more polluted, economically unfair, burdened with ethnic prejudices, politically oppressive, violence-filled, superstitious, wasteful of natural resources, sexist and ultraconformist.
But you still don't have to feel desperately unhappy. Unkind reality doesn't depress millions of humans. What does? Their unthinking addiction to . . . the idea that people and things should turn out better than they do and that you must view it as awful and horrible if you do not find good solutions to life's grim realities. An idiotic idea. . ."
Albert Ellist and Robert A. Harper, A New Guide to Rational Living
in: Archetypes of Wisdom, Douglas J. Soccio
But you still don't have to feel desperately unhappy. Unkind reality doesn't depress millions of humans. What does? Their unthinking addiction to . . . the idea that people and things should turn out better than they do and that you must view it as awful and horrible if you do not find good solutions to life's grim realities. An idiotic idea. . ."
Albert Ellist and Robert A. Harper, A New Guide to Rational Living
in: Archetypes of Wisdom, Douglas J. Soccio