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Imagine a dog. You throw him one tennis ball. He will run and fetch it. Good boy. But throw him a thousand tennis balls! He will jump around in confusion and excitement, for sure. And he will not catch a single one.
You are that dog. We are that dog. We are jumping around and chasing a thousand balls. We are catching none. We are excited, also scared and desperate, but excited. But we ain’t happy, brother.
Books were the one ball. They still are. A real hobby was that one ball. It still is. Religion always was the “super ball.”
The dog with the thousand balls is excited. But he isn’t happy. Excitement isn’t happiness. Herr Zuckerberg has become a billionaire by you confusing excitement with happiness.
Pick one ball. Give your all to fetch it. Deal with the fact that there are other tennis balls. The world will continue turning if you let the other tennis balls go.
The moment you decide on one worthy tennis ball, and give that one tennis ball your all, you have a shot at happiness.
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