Happiness loves Misery
What you have doesn’t always matter as much as how it stacks up against what others have. Buying the most expensive house on the block may but be savvy investing, but it will make you feel you were doing better in life than if it were surrounded by mansions.
On the other hand, happiness plummets if you compare your lot to what you think you should have or you could have had. Take the Olympic athletes. Bronze medal winners, it turns out, feel more satisfied than silver medallists. Why? The second place finishers, researchers believe, stew over how they just missed the gold, whereas those who placed third marvel at how close they came to not winning anything at all. Understandable, but not very sensible. And those athletes know what they want which, it turns out, many of us often don’t.
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I think people are too concerned too much about what other think now a days. People rate their lives on an unrealistic scale of comsumption of merchandise. This is the reason why our ocomanies are in such distress right now. Everyone wants a bigger home, a new car, a big TV, designer clothes, without being able to afford it. Society needs to change. THhings don’t make you happy. They make you broke.
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