Sometimes I think we created mental health problems when we sold people the lie that you can be happy all the time..

First in magazines, then tv and now social media we have lied about how never ending happiness is achievable. And it just isn’t. Surely anyone who is happy all the time is either deluded or mentally ill.

We are happy when we achieve something, or when we do something we enjoy, or when we love someone. And the real world isn’t always doing these things 100% of the time.

Think of wild animals. Their existence is finding enough food to not starve, without becoming someone else’s food. Their happiness is surviving one more day in good health with a full stomach. We have access to luxuries no generations before us had, but it will never be enough if you tell yourself you must be happy 100% of the time.

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GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

I think commercialism and marketing is whats giving us a false sense of what happiness is and were we get it from. People these days are so addicted to money and instant gratification they think happiness comes from having material items or social status. This is not the case. We have just been conditioned to believe this. So when we want to feel better about ourselves we think we do it by buying something rather than trying to figure out and solve our problems over a period of time. You can be happy all the time if you condition yourself to be in that state of mind. But you have to learn to let things go and actually fix your life problems.