Self Improvement For Misery

Sunday, the 15th of February 2026. You know, I feel like very often at times, when we put ourselves in the process of improving our lives, whatever it is, whether it be by making ourselves more successful, chasing success, chasing fulfilment, we often kind of like ignore

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the risk of jumping from the frightened pan and into the fire. Often at times, we pursue certain engagements with the perceived idea that such an engagement will give us more joy and more fulfilment, more success. 

But often at times we don't take into account the negative impacts, the stressors, the, um, the sort of things that we don't really think about when we think about, like, when we focus on the joy, like, let's say, for example, um, the acquisition of a brand new car, a luxury car, we often don't sit there and think and calculate, you know, how much we're gonna spend or the replacement of each individual part, which, by the way, could be very, very, um, you know, could be, you know, could turn out to be very expensive. 

So, in other words, we must remind ourselves always, and if not always as often as possible, that when we are in the pursuit of happiness, that we don't actually pursue misery in the process. That's really and truthfully kind of like the bottom line of it. 

Because many of us do try to pursue happiness. Many of us, you know, there's nothing wrong with, you know, kind of like our efforts. There's nothing wrong with like, you know, with us. 

We're not particularly broken in any way. We just spend time. I suppose, we don't spend enough time thinking, you know, critically about how, you know, kind of like our pursuit of happiness is essentially going to make us happy because, like I said, many of our pursuits often lead to misery.