Here we question ourselves "our we happy?"
Most of you will reply as "don't know".
Suppose I ask "How is your life?"
You might say, "Well, better than most!"
Yet why is it you are confused when I ask you if you are happy. Rationally you should be easily able to say that you are happy. It's fine, you cannot. It is clearly so because we share ourselves in 2 pieces, the memory guy and the experience guy. It experience guy is who experiences i.e. our present. The memory guy is the guy who is created after an experience, who creates a folder of memories everytime something different happens like extreme happiness, extreme tragic, extreme joy, extreme compromise. However the emotion associated with it causes us to feel the way we do. So after years if you get nostalgic and remember fond memories it is because the memory guy has a good emotion associated. Now whenever this comes into play we are typically confused because our state of mind is the present guy yet the feeling is empowered by the memory guy. Only in the present when things happen, the memory guy does not have a say.
The takeaway: We often feel depressed about our life even though it is better than most. This is merely because the memory guy is unable to associate to great good emotions. So we should live the present, create those fond memories and bridge the gap between 'feeling about our lives' and 'living our life'.
Inspired by Daniel Kahneman, supposedly the living epitome of psychology.
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