"...it's senseless to live your life ten years in the future because ten years from now isn't some capstone on your life that you can just settle into and enjoy for the rest of your years..."
This reminds me of a conversation I had the other day. I'm afraid that I'm always planning for the future-- and when that future comes, I'm still planning for the next bit of future and the bit after that. It makes me wonder if I am missing out on anything because of this.
On the one hand, of course you're missing out on something. On the other hand, you've gotta be prepared and responsible, or else you're not cut out for the adult world.
It's one of those horrible systems where, by the time you're in a position to change it, you're relying on it too much.
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
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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.
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This reminds me of a conversation I had the other day.
I'm afraid that I'm always planning for the future-- and when that future comes, I'm still planning for the next bit of future and the bit after that.
It makes me wonder if I am missing out on anything because of this.
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On the one hand, of course you're missing out on something. On the other hand, you've gotta be prepared and responsible, or else you're not cut out for the adult world.
It's one of those horrible systems where, by the time you're in a position to change it, you're relying on it too much.
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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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