When you treat happiness as a goal, you judge yourself for feeling anything less than perfect, which creates a cycle of guilt and frustration.


This "secondary suffering" means you aren't just feeling bad; you're feeling bad about feeling bad.
By trying to force being happy, you end up magnifying the very negative feelings you were trying to avoid.
How crazy does human psychology work, huh?
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