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Smart Friends

CHAPTER

The Blockers to Your Happiness

Happiness is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. The idea that you are going to change something in the outside world, and that i is going to bring you the peace, everlasting joy and happiness you deserve, is a fundamental delusion we all suffer from. I try not to have more than one big desire in my life at any given time. And i also recognize it as the axis of my suffering. So diesi this idea that it's so easy to add new desires. A, scroll and toranstogram, right?

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