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Isn't Feeling Good a Natural Goal of Being Human?
Ata: Is feeling good a natural goal of being human? She says there is this underlying assumption that sounds close to guilt, as if her quotoxic positivity is necessarily numbing or blinding her to the real concerns of the day. Ata: It's not only universal to want to be happy and want to be unhappy less, it is also universal to experience positive and negative emotion. But one thing that christina noted about having a lot of stability around these negative moods is that she has a centre of gravity in more positive states thannegative ones. So i guess the question would be, can't you have both?