• Icaria@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s called lifestyle creep. It’s never that you’re in a better place today than you were yesterday, it’s always that you could be in a better place tomorrow.

    And it’s both right and wrong. We make ourselves miserable by always wanting more, but also a lot of us have less than we deserve.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      We don’t make ourselves miserable by always wanting more. We make ourselves miserable by telling ourselves we’ll be miserable without more.

      I’m always building more and more in my life, and since I started doing that I’ve been happier than ever before.