RE: Being Happy Is A Choice... So Why Choose To Be Unhappy?

[cryptoctopus]

An ethic based on happiness alone is an ethic destined to fail because it can't sustain the devastating blow that life send our way from time to time.

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[anarchospace]

If you get into it more deeply, a few conclusions would arise:

1. you can't experience happiness all the time
2. negative emotions are a natural response to unpleasant stimuli and thoughts of unpleasantness (of that which is not wanted)
3. if you understand negative emotions as a correcting mechanism, telling you where you need to change focus, you can be happy most of the time and grateful for the 10% of the time that you are not because it gives you a valuable course correcting feedback

[finnian]

Yes! Even if bad things happen to us, it is still our choice to focus on them or overcome them.

[stillwater]

Interesting. There's truth in these words.................... I likes it!

[fiord18]

5 +))

[enazwahsdarb]

Yup. You need to have an ethic motivated by a bigger picture. That's why sticking to your life's vision is so important. It gives you meaning beyond yourself.

[ackza]

really susinct and neat point! kind of how a busines pkanned JUST based on profit and ONLy worried about Money will always Fail and peopel can SEE when your JUST abot money like people whp just shamlessly promote their steemit links, in unrelated posts, people who ave no substance who just set up some sort of Money turn key system that dooesnt actaly create value but just tries to "make oney" is always going to faiL!

yes a ethos basedd on just happpniess is like an anto depressent! u cant just try and "be happpy" its to intangible! u CAN make good lifestye investments to increaese chances of being happy and have ur needs met.....Its why growing food and saving up for a solar panel is so important!

Food electricity and Internet, what else do we need?
Here is the new Maslows Hierarchy of Need with Battery and Internet

Electricity and Internet are now more of a basic immediate need than food or even water! Information can teach you wree he water is or whre the wels or roverrs are! and like i said before on operation upgrade africa post, we can teach people how to make money on steemit and give em robot farm rtools to save ppeople the effort and work of farming to fre up affricans to use steemit al day on smartphones we can loan them and allow the too pay us off uwing thei future steemit money....