so that a story about starving children wandering through war-torn Afghanistan looking for their families can be less depressing than a story about a suburban American high school.
--which seems crazy, right? Except that it isn't. The cliché of poor but happy is odious, but it's odious because it ignores all the ways that poorness tends to make for unhappiness. And the same with the rich-but-miserable cliché, only in the opposite direction. But the truth of both clichés is that your spiritual and psychological well-being matter more than your physical well-being for your happiness. (All the usual caveats and riders apply...)
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Date: 2018-08-15 02:24 pm (UTC)--which seems crazy, right? Except that it isn't. The cliché of poor but happy is odious, but it's odious because it ignores all the ways that poorness tends to make for unhappiness. And the same with the rich-but-miserable cliché, only in the opposite direction. But the truth of both clichés is that your spiritual and psychological well-being matter more than your physical well-being for your happiness. (All the usual caveats and riders apply...)