Comment on I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pleasure/ease is not happiness, as I have been a directionless, purposeless NEET with no responsibilities but enough disposable income to finance my hedonism, and a full-time worker, part-time student married man, and the former made me suicidal after a while. If you’re lucky enough that you can just basically live like a pig, rolling in your own filth and just chilling until death, then good for you (not you, OP, just the “global” you 😅) but I can’t.
I’d say “the feeling/mental state resulting from realising you’re living according to your values (which involves identity and self esteem), balancing duty and pleasure/ease, in the momentary absence of great emotional pain/distress”. Or something like that. 👍