Why can't I just be happy?

[Raphael]

If I reflect on my life, I have never been really happy overall. I'm on antidepressant and my state is not a state where I'm super depressed but at the same time I'm not happy. I feel that I'm not living up my potential, I feel that I should be a better person, that I should be accomplishing more, that I should be changing the world but I'm not. My life lacks meaning and purpose. I thought in the past that being fit and healthy would make me happy but it didn't. I thought that meditation would make me happy but it didn't. It's hard to motivate me to do things: to wake up early, to work, to do some physical exercises, etc.

[Ramasta9]

Well antidepressants only damage and disrupt the happy chemicals in your brain even more. Think of it this way, its short term (numbness) for long term brain damage. Almost everyone I know who has taken anti-depressants, unless natural / herbal ones, is much worse now than they were back then. Sure they were sad and emotional, but now they are neurotic, angry and numb, little to no emotions about them or soul in them.
 

What you need my friend is a break from everything and your regular life and routine. Book a trip to thailand or india or somewhere new, disconnect from everyone temporarily, go camping in the woods in nature for a few days, take a break, a little mushroom may help too.

What you need is space to breathe and release all the shit that you are carrying that no longer serves you, and don't seek happiness, just be yourself, happiness naturally follows when you stop resisting who you truly are and live in alignment with your natural self.

 

 

[Princess Arabia]

5 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

What you need my friend

He doesn't need anything. If you also noticed, he didn't ask for help, just expressed how he was feeling and his situation. You want to save the world, but you can't. Life is expressing itself. Life doesn't need help, it doesn't need anything. It plays itself out. Even your response is also an expression and my comment to you is neither needed nor not needed.

 

[Schizophonia]

Just find something that makes you happy, even if it's as random as collecting aluminum foil hats.

Also for me, and my mentor Franck Lopvet agrees, motivation and even happiness lies in projection, in "deliriums."

If you tell me that if I work I'll be able to go out and drink beers in a pub in London one weekend, I'll agree to make the necessary effort; but if you tell me "you have to work because you have to," well, forget it, I might as well do the minimum.

[Ramasta9]

9 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

He doesn't need anything. If you also noticed, he didn't ask for help, just expressed how he was feeling and his situation. You want to save the world, but you can't. Life is expressing itself. Life doesn't need help, it doesn't need anything. It plays itself out. Even your response is also an expression and my comment to you is neither needed nor not needed.

 

He put himself out there, i merely responded with what felt natural to me. You make some silly comments you realize that, but thumbs up to you.

[Princess Arabia]

33 minutes ago, Ramasta9 said:

He put himself out there, i merely responded with what felt natural to me. You make some silly comments you realize that, but thumbs up to you.

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[ted73104]

What if you met Aladdin's genie and had three wishes, could you wish yourself into a happier situation? What would it look like?

[Raphael]

3 hours ago, ted73104 said:

What if you met Aladdin's genie and had three wishes, could you wish yourself into a happier situation? What would it look like?

Yes, I can but I'm keeping it to myself.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

20 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

He doesn't need anything. If you also noticed, he didn't ask for help, just expressed how he was feeling and his situation. You want to save the world, but you can't. Life is expressing itself. Life doesn't need help, it doesn't need anything. It plays itself out. Even your response is also an expression and my comment to you is neither needed nor not needed.

 

There is no-one here to perceive the "genius" of your post, am I right?🤭🧘‍♂️

[Princess Arabia]

2 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

There is no-one here to perceive the "genius" of your post, am I right?🤭🧘‍♂️

Hehe, right. It's all words talk(ing) to itself. See(ing) saw the words and respond(ing) responded. All ings.... verbing...isness...get it!! Don't you just love this nonsense, nonsens(ing). Lol🥰🫠😛