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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?

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sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

True happiness is something that should make you happy in the moment and in the long run.

I’m not sure I agree - why is a long term aspect necessarily for something to constitute true happiness?

If I can’t remember something, does that mean it didn’t make me “truly happy”?

If so, that would mean that a child given a toy they play with for years but eventually lose interest in and forget as they grow older, didn’t experience “true happiness” from that toy, which doesn’t seem right to me.

I don’t think permanence or longevity are factors in whether ones happiness is true or not.

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Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Good point!

Other hypotheses: we say “true happiness” when it’s sustainable (for a bit) without obvious negative effects. Thus drugs are stereotypically not sustainable and with negative effects, so they are not true happiness [obviously many would disagree, e.g. Baudelaire] and finding true love is true happiness. Thus, stories are also true happiness.

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