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Happiness vs. Stuff

Surrounded in a sea of thoughts and ideas, we all have been bombarded with the idea that the more “stuff” we have, the happier we’ll be. That those poor people in those countries where they live without electricity have no idea what they’re missing here “in the land of the free.”
Yet, in one of my favorite reads online, Why Having More No Longer Make Us Happy points out just how false of an assumption this is.
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Feeling Bad for Feeling Good?!

here I am, in the middle of this awesome life. And yet, even as I type, there is this ingrained part of me that says I can’t feel all the way good about all of my good. Or that somehow by proclaiming my gratitude for all of this goodness, that I am “rubbing it in” for those who may not be experiencing as much good right now. What kind of crap is that?!