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Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion?

teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Whilst i think happiness derived from fiction is real, I would refrain from letting it be my only source of happiness.

I could think of a million things in the world that i would like to do if I hade the resources to do them. None of them are fictional. But i can experience a glimpse of them through fiction.

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Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I agree on the first part, I am unsure about the meaning of the second one. Reading a book is for me a great source of happiness, and I wouldn’t completely replace it even given infinite resources.

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- teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I mean that there are people who (none named, none forgotten), have a tendency to get lost in fiction and forget about reality. I mean that there is more to gain by deriving happiness from something real.
  
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