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Old 04-21-2015, 12:24 AM
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mecanix
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"i'll be happy if …. i'll be happy when " how many of us make our happiness pre-conditional .
You can find contentment in chopping wood and carrying water or you can find it in doing something else .

What is it that you want ? If you want contentment you can have it now by being grateful for and glorying in what you have .

Yearning for something unattainable , unending happiness without one moment of pain for instance is a true exercise in futility and sure fire way of making myself miserable IMHO .

I think there is a middle way between the two .

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