For Q3, trying to find comfort and build deeper connection with another pessimist like minded can also be possible if one has more empathy than the other.
For Q1, analyze your reality and hope accordingly - be a Realistic Optimist. That's not to say that miracles don't happen, they do happen sometimes, but in general being hopeful is more beneficial.
Passionately, I agree. Happiness and pleasure differ... but perhaps when you sense that 'fleeting moment,' you believe it's happiness, yet it's actually pleasure? Of course, I can't speak for you, I'm not wearing your shoes, but it's food for thought
In regard to question number one, I have a personal philosophy: “Always believe you can, never believe you will.”
For Q3, trying to find comfort and build deeper connection with another pessimist like minded can also be possible if one has more empathy than the other.
For Q1, analyze your reality and hope accordingly - be a Realistic Optimist. That's not to say that miracles don't happen, they do happen sometimes, but in general being hopeful is more beneficial.
I think happiness is a fleeting moment. Maybe for others it is a lasting emotion but not I.
or is that pleasure which is fleeting?
I do not think so but I am thinking about that. I really think happiness not pleasure.
I get it now. Pleasure is shorter lived usually and maybe more intense than happiness
Passionately, I agree. Happiness and pleasure differ... but perhaps when you sense that 'fleeting moment,' you believe it's happiness, yet it's actually pleasure? Of course, I can't speak for you, I'm not wearing your shoes, but it's food for thought