Name: Do You Really Know Your Definition of Happiness? | Dr. Shefali Tsabary
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T06:13:19.000Z
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What you think is a good thing, and what you preserve as good,

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and what you hold onto and never want to shatter may actually be the thing that

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needs to break you apart to an entirely new way of living, to a new dimension,

But because we've been conditioned…and you know the tragic thing is we've been

conditioned in such a myopically rigid, stratified way…at least if you were

conditioned that many things were good, like almost everything on earth was good,

no problem, every life experience was good, no problem.

But you know that only five or six things are good, things that stay and last a

long time, things that make us feel good, make us look good, and give us money,

So you and I, without realizing, live on the precipice of fear of anything

That's why we Botox ourselves, and now we lift our butts and our

boobs up, and we take away all signs of aging, and we never want to be poor.

Your child comes home and says, "Mommy, you always told me you wanted me

We're thinking corporate corner job, baubles, trinkets, jewelry,

"I've decided I'm going to give up all my possessions and go and volunteer in a

war-torn country in Somalia… a part of Somalia.

I'm going to go and volunteer and live on alms."

That's not what I meant when I said, 'Go find your happiness.' Were you not

listening to the other parts of the sentence or the other part of the lecture?

There was a whole other section, that you can't be happy

without being wealthy, and you really can't be happy

without being married, and you can't be happy

Don't you see the whole world is doing it?

If the whole world is doing it, surely it means that it's giving us

"Of course, I don't look happy because right now your happiness is my happiness.

So it's only when you're happy I can look happy.

So if I don't look happy, it's your damn fault.

And when you're happy, and well-settled, and you find your partner,

and you have your children…" And the kid is going, "I was so happy just playing

with my blocks, but now she's told me when I'll be happy, so obviously

So it's something else I have to look for.

It's something so ephemeral, I don't even know what it is,

But, okay, because she's my mother, and this is my father,

I have to be well-settled, which, to me, I think it means some big-ass house

And then I have to find a partner and have children.

And if my body doesn't allow me to have children, okay, that's not a good thing.

And the person I have to marry has to be very well-qualified,

so probably I have to meet him at a very well-qualified institution.

So I have to study very hard, which brings us to today,

I can't play with blocks anymore, because I have to go work very hard for my

I was really happy just playing with my blocks."

So this woman was a simple woman in a village, and one day she noticed a hole

in her coat, but it didn't make her so unhappy.

But then when she went outside and she met her neighbor, the neighbor said,

And so the neighbor's judgment made her feel like, "Oh, okay, something bad,

So she sewed up the hole, and she was like, "Okay,

So she found a cat, and the cat was a good cat.

There are good and bad cats, too, by the way.

The cat did what it was supposed to do, and killed the mouse.

But then the cat was not, you know, sturdy and resilient.

So then she went to buy a good cow to give some milk for the good cat.

It would walk away and, like, do things that animals do.

So then she bought a fence, and she corralled it in a

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