"Eternal Damnation"

A tragedy? Why?

@Asssssvi well, I'm glad yours is a fairy tale.

Oh, thank You, aren't you happy with your life?
Isn't it enough to live to be happy?
Or do you need to be happy to live?

@Asssssvi enough to live to be happy....
If only that were Diogenes...

@deepstrasz For me, it's better to be happy, regardless of material goods, social status and other crap that society imposes on us, can't I be a happy homeless or poor artist? You become happy when you realize your dreams, but think about whether you realize Your dreams?

@Asssssvi if you can't realize them, then what's the point of living? How can you be happy? Brainwashing yourself to happiness of nothingness would be fine if you could actually get nothingness but you might get some invalidating disease, not eve death.

@Asssssvi Happiness is not a state of mind, and should not be confused with joy/pleasure. I read a study some time ago that revolves around how happiness is all about self-realization. Your achievements, and ability to reach your goals (this doesn't have to be your dreams necessarily) gives you a sense of fulfillment, and you will feel content about yourself. It builds on your character, and you will feel in control of your life instead of being a spectator while your life passes in front of your eyes.

@FeelsGoodMan Happiness is directly related to joy pleasure and satisfaction. It is individual for each person. We can't be happy all the time, but we can be satisfied with our life as a whole.The degree of your satisfaction will depend only on your goals that you set for yourself. What if you overestimated your capabilities? Is this the end of your life? We can review our views on life and go further without looking back, or work on ourselves and achieve this goal. I don't want to think before I die that I'm going to die a failure, I just want to make sure that I didn't live my life in vain.

@Asssssvi well, there's no objectiveness in that currently. We pretty much live in vain anyway. We're still monkeys on one rock waiting to either kill ourselves or wait for the forces of physics and chemistry to do it through a dying sun, depletion of resources et cetera.

@Asssssvi Happiness in the physiological sense of the term is by definition enjoyment, pleasure and satisfaction just as you said, yes, but many people tend to mix up the physiological and the philosophical terms to a point where they are indistinguishable.

People believe happiness is some transcended, higher state of mind almost like Nirvana, that they ascend to through enlightenment.

Being content with your life is only individual to some degree, taking Maslow's hierarchy of needs into the equation. Only the direction of your self-actualization is truly individual, and even that is only individual within some psychological limits.

If you overestimate your capabilities then that is a failure, and you will be left unsatisfied with your inability to reach your goal. It is not the end of your life, as most people adapt, and find new/other ways to achieve their goals.