What’s sad is that most people’s happiness rely on what we call the "remembering self". It equates happiness to memory rather than to the moment-by-moment experience of what actually happens.
You have more people obsessed with how they remember things rather than how they actually live it. We smile in pictures during a boring vacation, because that's how we want to remember it. This is the facebook fad. The saving of "fake" pictures.
You have more people obsessed with how they remember things rather than how they actually live it. We smile in pictures during a boring vacation, because that's how we want to remember it. This is the facebook fad. The saving of "fake" pictures.
Somehow, we need to remember that we had a happy memory in order to be happy. There is something quite wrong with that, especially for those who romanticize happiness, such as myself.
Tell me. If on one weekend, you meet the girl of your dreams, you hang out, land a plane ticket to some really cool vacation like Africa, you guys do all sorts of wild exciting things that only exist in fantasy and romcom movies. The catch is, you will forget it completely happened by the time the vacation ends. Sure, you would have some carry over effects, but not anything you can look back and reflect on. Would you do it?
Are you a happy person if you’ve done happy things and yet, don’t remember a single instance of it?
So again begs the question… what is happiness?
Is it a memory? Or very much in the present?
Are you a happy person if you’ve done happy things and yet, don’t remember a single instance of it?
So again begs the question… what is happiness?
Is it a memory? Or very much in the present?
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