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Originally Posted by WolfeMacleod
Believe it or not, the happiest times of my life were when I was broke and couch surfing.
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I don't doubt this, or HD's statement about being happiest in Chicago making $23k a year, but could it have had more to do with being young and carefree, filled with optimism about the future and surrounded by good friends?
I now realize that youth had its own serotonin connected to those things. Sure, young people are known to kill themselves as well when they lose hope or suffer a terrible hurt but that just proves my point. I was a lot more sensitive to feelings, good or bad, including the general sense of well-being that I had when surrounded by friends or having a great girlfriend, etc..
Having or making a lot of money would not have impinged on my happiness back then.
