Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
anybody have a suggestion as to how a guy is to find hapiness?
You could watch "Dancing with the Stars."



Well, maybe that might not be the right thing for you. One thing I would suggest is to not DWELL on all the horribleness of the world. I don't mean to ignore it, but the kinds of problems you are talking about out there in the world are too big for you personally to fix, so it does not do you very much good to FOCUS on them, especially if you are depressed. Maybe try to find one small thing in your life that you don't like and try to fix that one thing.

It's good to have a big-picture perspective, but when you are trying to solve something, you need to break it down into smaller pieces and do one at a time. For now I would just acknowledge that many people are stupid, there is a lot of bad spelling, monosodium glutamate and corn syrup are poison, and society is hedonistic --- and then just move on from those things because there is so little you can do about them. Pick one thing, like how to communicate to people about chronic pain, or how to meet people with common interests, or the wild vegetable connundrum, and then break THAT problem down into smaller pieces that you can maybe do someting about.