Retard's Complete Guide To Achieving Happiness

[BigBoy]

This is retarded

.me faggots will agree with anything if it has enough words

Cope, stoicism is legit

 

[lonelystoner]

After I changed my view set towards life, I feel more “free”. I accepted that nobody in this world is coming to save you and nobody is looking for you to love. We have to make our own happiness and not have false hope. Once you realize that you are born alone and are you going to die alone, life is better. Do things that makes you happy. Stop worrying what others want you to be. I’m 26 and just found myself. I get happiness from lifting weights, yoga/stretching, eating a healthy diet, reading, and getting tattoos. Everything in life is a cope. Just gotta find the ones that you enjoy and is healthy and will improve your mind and body.

 

[lonelystoner]

Cope, stoicism is legit

Stoicism is very based and blackpill. Really helps you let go of stupid shit in life.

 

[stuckneworleans]

Cope, stoicism is legit

It's called decent testosterone levels and solid upbringing

 

[EckhartTollemaxx]

It's always the current moment, the now.

Remember a fun event that you were really waiting for? That event has now passed.

You shouldn't wait for good things to happen, as they'll pass soon.

Most of life is filler material, stuff like browsing the internet, working and eating mediocre food.

It's best to live in the present moment.
Not living in the present means missing out on the small good events. Enjoying the boredom and the everyday good things.

Most of life is boring anyways, it doesn't get better by thinking of the holiday you're going to have next month. Soon you wake up and it's the morning after that holiday and you're older, waiting for the next peak experience instead of living.

 

[Teutonic]

Eh...

I think there's a balance between hedonism and stoicism that's optimal.

There's an incredible danger in merely "altering" your perceptions, in your current state of life, to just finding "enjoyment" in those day to day moments - namely, complacency. You risk the opportunity of genuinely improving the quality of your life by your complacency and lack of self-improvement.

For example, say that you are obese, you love eating Mickey D's and partying it up going to movies eating popcorn. You are 80 pounds overweight, working a dead end low paying job. You only have a few friends whose relationship is tenuous, no romantic life,

Sure, you can alter your perceptions to find enjoyment in each and every one of those moments; you can be content with having a few friends and enjoying each and every second of that. You can enjoy the pleasure of that very unique movie theater popcorn taste. You can enjoy watching Chris Evans fight robots in a Captain America suit.

Yet if you are just complacent like that, you easily risk throwing away an overall better quality of life. If you had desire for more hedonism (pleasure of any kind mind you, this includes pleasure from reading, friends, relationships, material possessions, not just food and sex), that may motivate you to losing that 80 pounds, to working on your social skills so you expand your social network and getting a promotion, to be able to afford higher quality food and maybe find a relationship.


I fully agree there is a risk in mindlessly trying to pursue more and more hedonism to the point that you throw away what good you have.

In my opinion, you should set an ideal goal for yourself, and work till that goal. Find an image of the ideal life you want. Once you get to a point that you know you've tried everything you can (and you will know that point), that is when you should switch to stoicism rather than beating yourself up.


Life is all relative anyways, it's a spectrum of qualities of life that, while unequal, still are subjective to an extent. Life's pleasures are worth suffering for.

 

[cardib]

In other words work on gratefulness every day and be grateful for what you have but still thriving for better.

 

[lonelystoner]

There is a reason why great scientists and philosophers are followers of the religion. It's a way of life that's tried and true and leads to a successful way of life. Look what lack of religion is doing to this world, it's becoming degenerate day by day. Beliving in religion is a chad trait tbh.

I grew up musl

It's called decent testosterone levels and solid upbringing

its about mindset. Not worrying the dumb shit in life.

 

[Deleted member 8167]

Well, it's more about being spiritual than being religious. Acknowledging that there's something greater and beyond our physical bodies and needs and trying to focus on it while living a modest lifestyle on the temporary floor called life should be the goal of human beings. If we just act like animals, focus on eating, shitting, fucking, and chase hedonism and materialism then there is no use for our consciousness. People in the western world seem no different than animals tbh. All they care about is sex and food

What do you care about?

 

[Pussyslayer]

What do you care about?

Living a good life, contributing to the world in more ways than just an offspring, travelling and exploring, going on a spiritual mission when I'm of a right age, taking care of family members and many other things that I enjoyed during childhood.

 

[sub6manletnozygos]

It's always the current moment, the now.

Remember a fun event that you were really waiting for? That event has now passed.

You shouldn't wait for good things to happen, as they'll pass soon.

Most of life is filler material, stuff like browsing the internet, working and eating mediocre food.

It's best to live in the present moment.
Not living in the present means missing out on the small good events. Enjoying the boredom and the everyday good things.

Most of life is boring anyways, it doesn't get better by thinking of the holiday you're going to have next month. Soon you wake up and it's the morning after that holiday and you're older, waiting for the next peak experience instead of living.

this is underrated. i experienced intense euphoria when i spent 7 days doing nothing but meditating (no exercise, no sugar, no social media, no daydreaming, no fap, no porn, nothing but staring at the wall focusing on my breathing. doing this taught me that happiness can be derived from seemingly nothing - passivity as distinct from things or people.

 

[SadnessWYJ]

reviving this

 

[gymislife]

good thread

 

[adsdadasdadad]

reviving this fucking masterpiece of modern philosophy, jfl at all u losers read this or kill yourselves

 

[moggingmachine]

npc tier thread, just lol at anyone who upvoted this garbage

 

[futuregigamogger]

(there's a fine line between happiness and apathy I feel)

 

[Dystopian]

npc tier thread, just lol at anyone who upvoted this garbage

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