Sure your life might not be that bad, but if you keep feeling like you just need this or that to be happy, you're never going to actually be happy. Why? Because science says your entire idea of happiness is wrong. Learn why over at Cracked.
Also; 5 Reasons Our Culture and Everything We Do is Counter-Productive and Other Cultures Have Justification For Being Weary Of Us (would be a good title).
We think that consumerism, materialism, social status, beauty and such like are the gateways to a sense of well-being, and so try to impose this value system on other cultures. But they view it merely as ignorance masquerading as virtue, and so one of the worst scourges on the earth.
We think that consumerism, materialism, social status, beauty and such like are the gateways to a sense of well-being, and so try to impose this value system on other cultures. But they view it merely as ignorance masquerading as virtue, and so one of the worst scourges on the earth.