Are there some people on earth with easy lives? (addiction, abusive, relationship)
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I always hear "no one has an easy life", "everyone has struggles even if the struggles are invisible". etc etc....but I wonder if that's the case?
Human life is in a way a balance of your birth lottery along with choices. Some people are born into fortunate circumstances and make good choices. Other bad choices. Some born into really bad circumstances and don't seem to make too many choices that benefit them in the long run.
I just think if we can point to someone who has it really bad in many ways (blind and deaf kid in a third world country in the middle of a famine), someone who suffers physically, emotionally, etc.. Couldn't there be someone the exact opposite (healthy person born to a well off family with enough street smarts to navigate life and won't ever risk homelessness, loss of loved ones too soon, financial debts, worrying about paying the bills). Someone who's life would look on the surface, really easy?
Sure, on the surface really easy. But everyone has demons. Maybe a lost love? Lack of approval from mom?
Relatively easy, sure, but never completely and totally easy. If your life is too easy, I think the lack of adversity gives you a lack of coping skills, which will lead to some sort of hardship at some point.
Agreed, I think people who grow up upper middle class tend to feel social pressure to pursue high-earning careers that they may not be particularly well suited for. Like the law-- so many lawyers are miserable all the time.
Stereotyping lawyers as ‘miserable’ is a rather deflective way for you to answer the question; so is your point, then, lawyers don’t have easy lives?
One can have an easy life and not be happy (and one can be happy and not had it easy).
Rarely, if ever, does someone experience both - because in one way or another, we have to put the (physical and/or emotional) work in for happiness through love and the pursuit of what matters.
One can have an easy life and not be happy (and one can be happy and not had it easy).
Rarely, if ever, does someone experience both - because in one way or another, we have to put the (physical and/or emotional) work in for happiness through love and the pursuit of what matters.
I don't agree with the above. It doesn't ring true. Plenty of people (millions if not billions) have both an easy life and happiness.
And happiness is not based predominantly on finding love with a significant other or just finding 'love' in general. Plenty of people do not have a significant other or do not have children and are happy in their life.
Also, finding love in finding a significant other comes quite easily for many many people. While they also have happiness.
Last edited by matisse12; 09-19-2019 at 10:59 PM..
Sure, on the surface really easy. But everyone has demons. Maybe a lost love? Lack of approval from mom?
Relatively easy, sure, but never completely and totally easy. If your life is too easy, I think the lack of adversity gives you a lack of coping skills, which will lead to some sort of hardship at some point.
If you look for some kind of problem, you can find most certainly find something wherever you are looking.
There is absolutely nothing easy about what the brain does to a person under these circumstances.
I agree. I also think this about those mentioned that "have it easy but can't enjoy it". Someone with those inner demons or incapacity to enjoy life does not have an easy life regardless of their life circumstances.
Self-awareness is a huge part of having a generally "easy" and happy life.
Of course there are people who were unlucky and where born under bad circumstances, but the point is what you do with the hand you were given. After you have gotten away from this bad situation, have you learned something? Has it made you appreciate something more? Can you see yourself more objectively?
This is the constant struggle that everyone faces.
We either accept the hand we were dealt with and move on seeking happiness, or we constantly look back and fantasize what could have been if this or that. We compare our lives with other peoples' lives. It is useless - there's only this moment.
We are who we are and that's it.
And don't forget - what is easy for you, maybe difficult for someone else.
If by "easy" you mean the person has to put forth very little effort in order to be fed, then you could certainly state that someone in a coma has an "easy" life.
I don't think any of us view it with that perspective.
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