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TromboneAl
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OK, time for some heavy philosophy here.
You've probably all heard of the study that measured general happiness levels of people who'd won the lottery and people who'd become paraplegic. What they found was that after a period of 6-12 months, those people's level of perceived happiness returned to the pre-event baseline. (note that I haven't actually found this study, just references to it).
The conclusion is that your happiness level is determined by your nature and not by things that happen to you.
I've found this to be generally true for me. I've had some really good things and some really bad things happen in my life, but find that after an adjustment period, my level of happiness returns to its standard baseline.
But if this is really true, it means that you won't be any happier if you retire! Or it means if you throw away all your money and just walk outside and devote your life to lying in the gutter, you won't be any more or less happy than you are now.
Yes?
You've probably all heard of the study that measured general happiness levels of people who'd won the lottery and people who'd become paraplegic. What they found was that after a period of 6-12 months, those people's level of perceived happiness returned to the pre-event baseline. (note that I haven't actually found this study, just references to it).
The conclusion is that your happiness level is determined by your nature and not by things that happen to you.
I've found this to be generally true for me. I've had some really good things and some really bad things happen in my life, but find that after an adjustment period, my level of happiness returns to its standard baseline.
But if this is really true, it means that you won't be any happier if you retire! Or it means if you throw away all your money and just walk outside and devote your life to lying in the gutter, you won't be any more or less happy than you are now.
Yes?