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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:03PM (#2397279)
Life isn't about what you get - it's about enjoying what you get.

This is a superb axiom to live by.

Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by pathik on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:43PM (#2397463)
It's also very unambitious. Life's also about working to get what you want, then enjoying what you wanted so much, then realizing that you wanted something more, and then working harder to get that as well.
Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:44PM (#2397471)
True. But if during that process you are always by default happy with what you have at any given moment, then you can't lose.
Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by pathik on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:33PM (#2397670)
If you are always happy with what you have, then, by definition, you don't want anything else. As much as I would love to be happy, the way I see it, if you are always happy, you have already lost. Unless, of course, you have already made your billions.
Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:03PM (#2397783)
I'm happy now. I imagine I'd be more happy if I had more stuff/cash, for some definition of happy. Therefore it's good now and it only gets better.

The problem starts when you decide that you don't have enough, and this makes you unhappy. Then you pursue the stuff thinking it'll make you happy. Starting from that viewpoint, I don't think it ever will.

Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by phernandez on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:05PM (#2397793)
I wish I could down vote this.
Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by jarek on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:58PM (#2397764)
I want what I have.