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29 Feb 2016, 5:06 pm

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche



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02 Mar 2016, 8:50 am

I try to make myself as happy as possible, despite the fact that, really, there is no "why" to my existence.

The only reason why I'm here is because my mother and father made me.

I have no illusions as to any "purpose" which justifies my existence.

I try to live morally. I try to be decent to people. It's because I think it's right, not because I was preordained in any way to be some saint or something.



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02 Mar 2016, 2:52 pm

the great abe Lincoln was a notably melancholy man, with many reasons to be melancholy, but he said "a man's about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."



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19 Apr 2016, 9:24 am

Ashariel wrote:
Happiness for me is focusing on an activity I enjoy, and forgetting about everything else. If I can do that for even a few minutes a day, it makes the other stuff worth enduring.


Yep me too, I revel in the fact that I'm free to do pretty much as I like. Play my guitar, take a walk in the park, do some sums or muck around with Unity. I say to myself "Life's good"


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