If life is about the journey, can we choose the road with less traffic?

Would that make us happier?
Or would we find it less interesting?

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Reject · 31-35, M

To choose the road with less traffic is to admit that happiness is something to acquire and not make which robs you of your ability to create meaning. Without that, there will always be a problem. Even if you enjoy the trip, your destination still won’t have the meaning you must now seek.

CookieCrumbs · F

@Reject
So you’re saying, if you focus on your search for meaning, you’d take any road, even one where you’d have to sit in traffic for a long time?

Reject · 31-35, M

@CookieCrumbs Not on the search for meaning, but teaching yourself how to create it even in situations that aren’t your ideal. Searching for meaning is the problem because that implies it’s something to find. As long as you believe that, all meaning will become temporary and able to be taken away and that’s a very hard life to live. Everyone needs meaning.