Suffocation and commitment

Both deal with the idea of being trapped and I despise that feeling. The feeling of not being able to do or prevent something, of being powerless.

Woah, okay, I love this. Thank you so much for sharing.

Try running in the morning and in the evenings, go for a walk with an audio book of your required reading. Kill two birds with one stone!

Now the presidential election can be as dank as my memes.

"I was nearly murdered, but at least I wouldn't have died alone!"

I feel like a lot could go wrong with this...especially in LA.

Well, unhappy IS the converse... it's a snapshot of a time that was very bad.

Not being happy doesn't equate to unhappiness. Maybe in writing sure, but not in real life. Happiness isn't two state of beings, it's a spectrum. Often, in our day to day lives, we reside near the middle of the spectrum, neither overtly happy or not, just content. Some moments of our life shift us closer to either end, but to constantly live in a state of pure joy is to live in a utopia - and we all know how that ends.

The above is a healthy person, a person whose neutral state rests near the middle of the spectrum. A depressed person would be one whose neutral state rests near the "unhappy" side of the spectrum. It is unhealthy for a person to be giddy 100% of the time; in the same sense, it is unhealthy for a person to always be miserable.

In the end, to decipher your own happiness and whether or not you should change, you must first clear your mind of any one person's definition of happiness. Forget everything you've learned or been taught because it's all pressures of a society made by humans for humans. Look into yourself and determine: Am I content? What do I want to change? Is it reasonable to want these things to change? Is so, how will I change them?

The article basically describes the planning fallacy. People imagine, and thus expect, the best possible circumstances and are consequently surprised when reality falls short. In that sense, positive thinking isn't always the best, but then neither is negative thinking. The solution is simply to think rationally. While positive thinking is nice, in reality such is detrimental to achieving our goals.

As for fantasizing, all things in moderation. Fantasizing allows us to see beyond the realm of possibility. At its best, it nurtures imagination and fosters hope. Allowing- just briefly- yourself to imagine what life could be, paired with rational goal setting, is what separates the day-to-day achievers from the entrepreneurs. After all, generations of humans had to fantasize over flight to one day invent the airplane.