Ya boy is lucky he found a partner back in squallage in early 2010s. Since then my life has been much better. This quarantine has been crap , but without my wife and daughter it would be lonely as fuck. Granted, sometimes i wish i had some alone time , but i love having my buds around me all day. Feeling bad for my sister who is alone on west coast in a small house apartment by herself.
After spending 2 years driving through Latin America, and three years driving around Africa to the most remote places I could reach[1], I wholeheartedly agree.
I honestly feel that the majority of people in Western countries don't know day to day happiness.
i've come around to a similar point of view after spending a lot of time in latin america.
i don't necessarily believe that people down there are happier on average, because i know that many are not. but, i have noticed that latin americans seem to have the latitude to take more joy and passion in their daily lives. and i think that if the two can be separated, people are more content on average there than they are here.
not everything is a business transaction, and it isn't necessarily desirable for someone to be spending their time clawing their way through the world. there's less of a culture of marketing/advertising creating new problems for people and offering products to solve them, too.
After traveling to 30+ countries and living overseas, there’s definitely an attitude difference. My mom growing up had no running water in a village, yet loved the huge family she was a part of. Now she’s in the states and deals with loneliness on a daily basis
This is less a reply and more for everyone else in the thread and page: I give you the parable of the Mexican fisherman[1]. There are some variations but the basic idea stays the same.
Tangential, but I'd love to recommend The Grey Islands by John Steffler about his time alone on what are the Grey Islands off the coast of Newfoundland.
Off topic: I just binge watched most of your videos. Great series. I never realize how similar Africa is to sub-continent specially Karnataka (which I had visited).
> Being alienated from any product of his labor, and going year after year through the same paper routine, he turns his leisure all the more frenziedly to the ersatz diversion that is sold him, and partakes of the synthetic excitement that neither eases nor releases. He is bored at work and restless at play, and this terrible alternation wears him out.
* Most of us have no clue what enjoyment means.
* We are living in a world where others define our purpose and meaning of enjoyment.