What's holding you back from being happy?
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One might answer: it's the struggle for survival! Every day, I worked hard for my livelihood and ate and drank for my family.
In a sense, we will indeed encounter all kinds of misfortunes, and tomorrow or accidents will come first.
How many people have returned to the state of life they had been in a few years ago because of illness overnight. A neighbor sold a house to see his mother, and the cost of more than 100 days was as high as hundreds of thousands of yuan, of course, this is still some conditions, because he went to Beijing to see a doctor, not a local doctor.
Sometimes, we do fight for survival.
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Russell argues that, in another sense, is incorrect, because in real life, there are not many people who are hungry. What we usually call the struggle for survival is actually a struggle for "success," not a real struggle to starve.
People will feel uneasy in this struggle, not because they can eat breakfast the next morning, but because they can beat their neighbors!
When I think of a saying, a beggar will not be jealous of a millionaire in the distance, but he will be jealous of the beggar around him who asks for an extra dollar than himself.
Russell believed that when people wanted to get comfortable and happy leisure time from money, but typically, people wanted more money than people who were originally in the same position as themselves. People will overly see the fruits of competition as the main source of happiness.
We can't deny that having a sense of success makes it easier for people to love life. Like an obscure painter, after many years, his talents are recognized, and he is mostly happy and happy.
At one point, however, money is extremely helpful in promoting happiness, but after that, things are different.
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Oh, you can't look at it this way, money is the basis of happiness, no money is certainly not happy, but it does not mean that the more money you have, the happier you are, money is only a necessary part of happiness.
If a person earns too much money and does not know how to spend it, he will have nothing to do because of his success, as long as success itself is used as a goal in life, at a certain point, he will no longer feel happy. Unless he knows how to deal with it after success, the acquisition of success will inevitably become a victim of his boredom.
So, what hinders your happy life, to a large extent, is the excessive pursuit of success and forgets the enjoyment of daily life.