What if this is as good as it gets?

“There is an idea that there is always something better to do, something better to have, somewhere better to be, someone better to be with. Solving the problem, I have sometimes allowed myself to believe, just requires buying something (and using planetary resources).

The problem is that when I get the better thing, it turns out that there is, yet again, something better to do, something better to have, somewhere better to be, someone better to be with. This is what the positive psychologists call the “hedonic treadmill”—a gerbil’s merry-go-round that never gets me to the happiness I hope I might find(más…)”