#187: Drowning in envy

Would a family of her own be an enrichment or a duty?

And I think that’s one of our enduring understandings of what ambition has to be something massive, something that rules your life and every decision you make, something that never stops burning, and crucially, something that somehow lands people in this mystical land of perfect contentment. If you’ve ever known someone whose primary attribute is a

We envy others; we desire some superfluous object in order to impress them; we obtain (or fail to obtain) that status symbol; those others are likely to feel a similar envy; they in turn seek out a similar status symbol for themselves; we continue the pattern of acquiring further objects to keep the wheel turning. None of this relates to happiness,

The reason so many people don’t really feel happy while they’re building up their success in the eyes of society is that they are living in competition. Because to them, the world is a perilous place that is overflowing with enemies.