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Originally Posted by Doctordick
..we seem to be much happier then most of the people we know. Is this little more than forgetting unhappy experiences?
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I think being happy is a sense of life that derives from the dialectic interplay of two aspects of contemplative activity (1) not forgetting happy experiences and (2) forgetting unhappy experiences. So I think you have identified 1/2 of the equation of happiness as relates to what humans remember. My hypothesis is that greater happiness comes to those that apply both reason and science at a high level of effort to form their outlook or worldview of life. Here I refer to folks that are not clinically depressed, the cause of their unhappiness is physical-chemical imbalance in the brain, not how they apply reason and science. Thus I think it is no accident DD that you seem to be much happier than most people you know--most "normal" people you know do not live day-day thinking at the level you do about the interplay of reason and science. They are happy to a degree, but not to your degree. I do not, of course, know your wife, but I will predict that reason and science guide her sense-of-life also, and thus helps explain why the two of you grow in happiness together over time. Cordially, Rade.
