What Remain?
Did you ever think about what it really matters in life? Even though few of us do know the sour truth do we acknowledge it? That's because we live in a culture that places a high premium on external measures of success. As a society we value appearances that fall within our unrealistic standards of beauty , pride ourselves on being constantly busy, and seem to be constantly striving to make more money or have nicer things. There is nothing wrong with being ambitious-but often I think that we mistakenly equate some of these external achievements with experiencing greater happiness . We are into “hedonic adaptation,” where people quickly become used to external changes (good or bad), and return to their basic state of happiness. We have all experienced this on reaching an external goal-only to realize that once we have achieved a goal, often we simply move on to the next one or raise the benchmark of how we define success. Same is with love as well, we ...