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ultra-musketeer  ·  4338 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: There's More to Life Than Being Happy

I love this article. It ascertains what I've been trying to confirm with myself for months. Living as an individual, and observing your own impulses and needs, banishes you from the higher form of existence - the state of mind which ought to lead to productivity and purpose. It's by devoting yourself to other causes, separate from your own, and by giving yourself away in a manner that grants your life meaning, that you become settled into a security of direction, which, if anything, is the surest way to happiness.

I've long thought that individualism was the worst guide to living. I think this man's ideas and experience prove me correct.