ADAPTATION
COUNTERACTING ADAPTATION INCREASES HAPPINESS
According to scholars including Sonia Lyubomirsky (U of Cal. Riverside)
Humans adapt quickly to our circumstances but that also means we are
easily bored and unhappy
Beware of Adaptation! Cockroaches adapt Bottom feeders & sharks
are good adaptors too Among the most effective methods for increasing
happiness is talking to friends about your coming travels (Leaf Van Boven
U of Colorado Boulder) This is the best they could come up with?
I implore you gentle reader: Always remember nothing is that funny and
happiness is a drug developed by BIG PHARMA to make you think: you are
can be want to be need to be happy Whereas real happiness is fleeting
illusive ephemeral FICTIONAL much like life itself
Happiness is a mirage Go ahead knock yourself out run towards it see what
happens I know a woman who is getting married next Tuesday as of last Monday
she was sucking the fingers of a long time acquaintance Adaptation is the last great
Mythos Ditto happiness
Several years ago a man in a tall fur hat made eye contact with me through the glass
at a Starbucks Next thing I knew he was beside me: You have the face of a writer
With this he disappeared from my life forever? Perhaps it was a meet-your-maker-
moment All I can say is that I have finally figured out how to be faithless making
happiness redundant Like the song says: Ain’t nothing like the rill thing baby
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*Wish you were on vacation right now? Don’t. Taking a vacation won’t make you
happier. And it may make you suffer even more.
(Journal of Applied Research In Quality of Life 2010)
Summer 2014
