I thought @puheenix gave a great metaphor for my intuitions about this.
"Good friends", "sustainable job", etc. are like car maintenance: essential to make sure your car works.
But you need to have a destination in mind, otherwise why have a car?
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RT @ohwizenedtortle
Part of this is that I believe it's valuable for me to figure out where I'm heading with my life. I'm implicitly disagreeing that the model of happiness which i…
https://twitter.com/ohwizenedtortle/status/1653186835018022912
I'm reminded of Corner of the Sky from Pippin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdkyc686VIg
Although honestly when I first heard it I thought (and I think the Schwartz's point is) Pippin was being silly and needed to be happier with not being Great.
Anyway, here's some of the lyrics:
Every man has his daydreams
Every man has his goal
People like the way dreams have
Of sticking to the soul
Thunderclouds have their lightning
Nightingales have their song
And don't you see I want my life to be
Something more than long...
I'm currently functioning on 3 hours of sleep (flew from overseas overnight) but re-reading that and thinking more about this makes me wonder whether this is actually just depression. Or is THAT just numbing myself to important existential questions?