Responsibility, it seems, is the driving force in squelching happiness. To me, it seems that gaining some responsibilities increases my happiness. Generally I gain happiness from accomplishment, and most of my accomplishments (section leader, stage manager, etc.) have occured because of some measure of responsibility. Perhaps I have already squashed the flights of fancy, or those include a different sort of happiness that is not included in this category.
So aren't you contradicting yourself a bit by saying you used to live for the moment and then saying it's senseless to live your life ten years in the future? I'm not sure I understand where you believe you should be living if it's not for the future and it's not for the moment. I think it would make more sense to say don't live for a specific point in your future, but instead live for the future. Or is that what you were trying to say?
Could not love be a series of moments in which instantaneous joy is obtained, and after a while they are so close together it seems as though joy is never ending? Even if there is no love to be shared, can there not be instantaneous joy to be shared?
Happiness or simply a sense of accomplishment? There is a difference.
No. I'm saying that I used to live one way and my life has slowly shifted into a different focus. I understand how and why it happened, and I'm not complaining about it, I'm just observing that a decrease in happiness correlated to an increase in responsibility.
To me, it seems that gaining some responsibilities increases my happiness. Generally I gain happiness from accomplishment, and most of my accomplishments (section leader, stage manager, etc.) have occured because of some measure of responsibility. Perhaps I have already squashed the flights of fancy, or those include a different sort of happiness that is not included in this category.
So aren't you contradicting yourself a bit by saying you used to live for the moment and then saying it's senseless to live your life ten years in the future? I'm not sure I understand where you believe you should be living if it's not for the future and it's not for the moment. I think it would make more sense to say don't live for a specific point in your future, but instead live for the future. Or is that what you were trying to say?
Could not love be a series of moments in which instantaneous joy is obtained, and after a while they are so close together it seems as though joy is never ending? Even if there is no love to be shared, can there not be instantaneous joy to be shared?
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No. I'm saying that I used to live one way and my life has slowly shifted into a different focus. I understand how and why it happened, and I'm not complaining about it, I'm just observing that a decrease in happiness correlated to an increase in responsibility.
No, not if you include the "reality" factor.
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