• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I swear some people legitimately could do that. Some people really are high on life. But most of us aren’t.

    The happiness from within thing is just a cheesy way of saying you have to make yourself happy. If the phrase isn’t useful to you, you don’t have to use it. It would be a lot more realistic to say “Happiness comes from putting in the effort and work to make yourself happy, primarily through delayed gratification.”

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You can definitely count on me to keep negotiating with the universe on achieving happiness, but don’t count on me succeeding. That much I learned by now.