re: Average Lives Are Depressing AF

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There is a direct parallel between profound unhappiness and seeking your happiness through projecting your status through social media and materialism.

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social media just amplifies it

living your life with expectations of other people will always lead to emptiness, because you have no internal barometer

this is an area where being an emotionally deficient, isolated person comes in handy. understanding my expectations are all that truly matters, matters. the key is figuring out how to develop proper expectations and then the strategy and discipline in meeting them