A happy life is a stable state that is located within a person and is not directly related to the outside world. A person can be happy without exquisite pleasures and a high standard of living. This is due to the fact that pleasure and happiness are different. We may experience pleasure from food, relaxation or entertainment, but they provide a temporary and unstable feeling of satisfaction that quickly leaves the person. In addition to the loss of a sense of satisfaction, dissatisfaction arises, which prompts you to repeat the process of obtaining pleasure.

Having tasted a delicious dish, a person will strive to get a positive experience from this food again. Such a desire, left unattended, will disappear over time, but before that it will create dissatisfaction. Gaining satisfaction from external objects does not bring happiness, but only temporary satisfaction, which binds our sense of happiness to external sources. The habit of enjoying something increases the demands on this object and next time we want not only to get the same impressions, but also to experience them stronger. This is why we don’t experience the same emotions from our favorite dishes that we eat for the x-tenth time.

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