nsecure, because the more you have, the more you have to lose. You're dating Britney Spears. ( forgive me, I hate her too) You're enthralled, enraptured, infatuated. You soon devote you're entire waking hours to beating the crap out of anybody who looks at her the wrong way, and devoting your sleeping hours to dreaming about different ways to beat the crap out of anybody who looks at her the wrong way. You can't even enjoy her pleasant company anymore, because your mind is working over time trying to protect your claim. Eventually she learns of your dispicable antics, and she puts a restraining order on you. This is how your pursuit of britney spears (happiness) has been self defeating. His fifth statement is status. Success sometimes requires losers, success is high risk. Often in life in order to attain private fulfillment it's necessary to view others as rivals, for either having something you want, or standing in the way of attaining it. It's unfortunate that there must be this element of yin and yang where success is concerned. Wherever there are winners, there must also be losers. As a for instance: The Art department is involved in awarding a free trip to Italy to 8 students. You know your professor has selected work from certain students for the committee to view, and you happen to know that your work was in the lot, and so was the work of a girl whose art you don't like and whose attitude you can't stand. You think you've got a pretty good chance, but cringe when thinking of spending 12 days with this girl. When you get your letter in the mail, you do the happy dance. When you read the names of the other 7 students picked, you do the happy dance again, because she's not among them. How unfortunate. (hehehe) Yet another fine example of how the pursuit of happiness is self defeating. Ok, so pretend you're the other girl. :) His sixth statement, is satasfaction of desires is superficial, because it doesn't change you on ...
