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The 5 Things That Make Life Seem Very Easy
Some people are handed everything, get all the money they will ever need, run into lucky opportunities just walking down the street, and lead objectively easy lives.
We could say these people have it easy, and we wouldn’t be wrong, but wouldn’t be all right either.
How often have you heard of celebrities taking their own life because they were too depressed?
How often does it happen that rich people talk about stress or act out and ruin their careers?
What about all those “One-hit wonders” or the lottery winners that are often worse off after their success than before?
Do you really think that they believe life is easy?
Subjectively we like to think that if we just had money, fame, a partner, better genetics or a more fortunate upbringing, that life would be great.
We believe that we are missing one puzzle piece for happiness, but often that isn’t true.
Of course we all need a certain amount of health, money and love to be okay, but life will not suddenly become amazing just because we have a lot of one or the other.
Besides, just because someone’s situation seems perfect from the outside does not mean they perceive it as such.
