On: Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That D...

[bombcar]

Someone who is truly happy is likely to be happy in any situation.

Someone who is unsatisfied, is likely to be unsatisfied in any situation.

You can't fix internal problems with external solutions.

[antisthenes → bombcar]

That doesn't mean that external problems don't exist or that they don't have different orders of magnitude.

Not having food in the fridge is a lot different than not being able to afford a house with 4 bedrooms over 3 bedrooms.

[bombcar → antisthenes]

It's unlikely (though possible!) that the person who is sad in the house his mom paid a seven figure downpayment on is going hungry.

Though he may have no food in the fridge and instead door dashes everything, I dunno.

[pavel_lishin → bombcar]

But you can sure cause all sorts of unhappiness with external problems.

[s1artibartfast → bombcar]

You cant fix internal problems with external solutions, but not all problems are internal. Most are a combination of the two, a miss-match of internal and external conditions.

I think there is a lot to be said in favor of stoicism and introspection, but it is not the solution to every problem.