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Happiness takes work

Happiness isn't about bypassing reality, but rather coming to a deeper understanding of it.

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Heather Brooke
Nov 29, 2024
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I used to be suspicious of happiness. It’s not that I yearned to be unhappy, but too often the quest for happiness was, to my mind, tied up with delusional thinking. It involved putting on blinkers, so the darker,…

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