Does abstraction give you infinite happiness?

[jennifer_bloom]

Like I will take a body that I want to have of somebody who has achieved their weight loss goals and I will picture myself with that body, it makes me happy even though the thought is unchanging.

Also, if I walk for one hour and see a raccoon for five minutes, I can think about that raccoon for 6 months and forget all about how boring the walk was before I saw the raccoon.

Same if I have a bad week or month or year and wake up to a video of birds chirping live-streamed in the united kingdom, I will forget a lot of the year and my memory will behave as if 90% of the year was spent looking at livestreams of birds hatching and chirping, that is what keeps me joyful.

[slatyb]

No, but my talent for abstraction gets me a lot of money as a software developer.

[Waldoe]

these "moments" are like hitting the "Reset" button on your attitude

[Massageman]

Sometimes I 'll get a certain song stuck in my head for a couple weeks at a time.

On the other side of the coin, if I were to tell you specifically "do NOT think of red mini-vans at all any time this week?, you would immediately start to look for red mini-vans that you can "ignore". Funny how that works.

[Hetty4]

I think it depends on the person, my happiest moments usually involve food 😂