lower your expectations - a guide to happiness

a reply to: gosseyn


I've done all of this, even to the point of fasting but only works to some extent.

Basic things still needed (without which can still make one miserable, regardless of what mode of thinking you possess):

- 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep
- peace and quiet
- clean surroundings - and none of that humanly horrid smells.

You can have any of those three very cheaply.

Unfortunately, even those virtually free options isn't freely available to everyone anymore. People living in slums in a poor nation is one example.


At one point we do have to face reality and defeat it so everyone on Earth can have a **free** choice to live happy. Because at this point, not everyone has that freedom to choose. Lots of people on Earth still living in oppression, even enslaved, their basic needs denied.