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The Mantra of Happiness
When you are sad, you want to not be sad. That's the main focus. You want to feel better. And so I think that being able to quiet the hundreds of nonexistent voices in my head that were constantly judging the activities that I was doing and labeling them good or bad or good enough or not good enough, et cetera, took up a tremendous amount of my attention. It was only when I came up with the mantra, but fuck happiness, which sounds ironic because I said the person with a thousand who was happy as a thousand wishes,. But in choosing not to admit the deficiency between my current state and the future state of what I desire to be, I was able