Thanks a lot guys! I always wonder how much social representations of happiness influence in our own perception of happiness or content. Like if there were a social prescription of what happiness should be and we feel we don't adjust. I am not minimizing our depression particularly our biological component but I wonder how much these social prescriptions contribute to our perception of unhappiness. Same thing when we feel that we are not like the others and then we feel there is something wrong with us. I do not know in fact if the way the majority of people live today is really OK, is it?
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ClaraHope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
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