Break the wheel of pleasure and create your own happiness.

 Break the wheel of pleasure and create your own happiness.


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In modern society, the pursuit of happiness encounters a simple and fundamental obstacle that needs are always relative. It's about your position relative to the group around you.


Human decisions are always made against a certain reference point, and this reference point changes under the influence of the environment to which it belongs. A person is not absolutely rich or poor, but rather rich or poor than one would expect.


Whatever the situation, the reality of the world around them eventually establishes a new standard.


You are either happy or unhappy compared to the reference point considered 'normal, but in the end, your current situation always becomes a new reference point. Thus, happiness always returns to average stability. Because of this nature of happiness, the pursuit of happiness is sometimes compared to the 'wheel of pleasure'. No matter how hard you try, you always stay at the same starting point.



A man thinks that he will be happy when he reaches a certain level he imagined, but he obeys the laws of desire that he does not understand himself. Humans cannot accept the fact that their needs are highly variable.


 He always dreams of a 'future' rise in income, but once that dream is realized, he feels that that increase is not enough. Because people compare present aspirations with future expectations without taking into account that present aspirations are bound to change.


No one accepts the fact that he changes under the influence of his environment. My being right now is the only judge who has given me the right to evaluate what is good. This explains why the growth of wealth is more important than wealth itself in how we operate society.


The growth provides everyone with a fleeting but ever-renewing hope to rise above the current psychological and social status. It is not the realization of growth, but the promise of such growth to calm anxiety.



Constantly raising the hurdles of hope for happiness is a shortcut to getting caught up in the wheel of pleasure.


Humans can be free when they can escape from vague longing, habituation to situations, and fear of loss.


When you can create your own happiness in freedom, the process to reach results can also lead to happiness.

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