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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There was a great article in the paper recently about how choice, and knowledge of life choices, creates anxiety and depression. The crux of it was that people now know how good they could possibly have it, or might have had it had they made different choices, and are confronted daily with the results of their decisions. This leads them to lament and brood - a sort of "the grass is always greener elsewhere" syndrome. In the old days, you didn't know how others lived because technology didn't shove it in your face. You didn't know you could find fulfillment in another career, location, etc..., so you didn't brood or get anxious about where you were or where you were going.
I buy the article's premise. Now I have to find someone to sue for the fact that I'll never be satisfied no matter what I do with myself.
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When did we start caring about being fulfilled - that is what I would like to know. There are still tons of people in the world that do what they do because their father did it (I mean like the guy in Morocco who knows from birth that he is going to be a particular artisan because that is what he is expected to be because his father and grandfather etc were). Do they care about being fulfilled and just shut up about it? When I see other people like that it makes me feel very self-indulgent to be preoccupied with my happiness and yet at the same time if I live in a time when I can, why not? Hard to decide.
