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This is another example of comparison. Here, I believe you are comparing happiness with the past and worrying about not having it in the present. You can choose either to think about your past memories and feel grateful that you were happy in those days or you can choose to compare that you are not having the same experience in the present. I don't know if you were doing the same, but there are several new experiences you can have now which were not available earlier that can make you as happy as you had it in the past. By comparing, we are not being grateful for what makes us happy right now.

You are speaking about comparison on an absolute scale and I agree that it is a fundamental part of our logical thinking and it's difficult to live without it. But when it comes to happiness, we can very well stop comparing to the people who are better than us and start comparing with ones whom we perceive to be in a worse condition. Such kind of comparison is mental conditioning and I believe it can be minimised, if not eradicated.

Hedonic treadmill is the answer to what's wrong with hedonism.

It requires a great deal of effort to be lazy and not get bored at the same time. So they deserve to be called the heroes!

There are always steps to expand consciousness and I believe realising the role projections play in the comparisons we make is a step towards it. Thank you. Projections are nothing but limiting beliefs that can affect the experience of interacting with others as much as it affects our own happiness. It's always good to have an open mind, no matter what the situation is.

Treat it differently when it comes to evaluating how the environment affects the beings in it and what you can do to improve. Treat it the same when it comes to understanding how God loves every environment with equal love.

If you are poor, aim for a college that is cheaper and within the country.

Take an educational loan and do a course that fetches good jobs as well as that you are interested in. If your parents don't accept, tell your parents that you would work hard to pay back the money in a few years. You can also do part time works while studying.

If God uses a ranking system to rate your purpose's impact, Leo's and other people you mentioned will be making the world 0.0000000000000001% better whereas you will be making it, maybe two or zeroes more or less than that figure. So, it's not really important how much it impacts the society, what is important is that whether you get the happiness out of creating the impact you are envisioning by seeing it in action. If you are saving an ant and looking at it roaming alive because of you, you have created an impact. Mindfully realising how your actions have created impact is more important than the measure of impact in comparison with others.

It's a wonderful thing to do, especially if you are good or passionate in making music. All the best!

The more you build social relationships, the more you will be happy. When you extend your social circle beyond family, religion, country etc. you will be happier since you have more chances of socializing and can form new experiences.

The feeling of flying is truly a marvelous experience, both physically and emotionally! Do it long enough and the leg will disappear from existence for quite sometime.

Humans needn't even have to fly in order to fly. Get a time machine, go forward 100 years, strap yourself in a virtual reality device connected to your brain, and voila! you not only can fly, but do whatever you want in whatever world you imagine. But it simply becomes another kind of porn.

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The problem with horse-human marriage is that the horse cannot give consent. It will be accounted as rape. If the horse develops a good brain and development like humans and wishes to marry a human, then why not?

Definitely something weird. They would wonder why humans are taking so much effort to understand simple things using complicated stuff like maths. And our nerd scientists would wonder how they could imagine something as amazing as Maths as weird!

Yep! Lesson learnt: Don't hug anyone too tight.

The only thing I am sure quantum mechanics proves is that universe can get as complicated as it can to understand if we try using logical mind. But, sure, the mind creating or affecting matter is another interesting theory arrived using the observed mechanisms, but I believe it's way more complicated than it seems, atleast logically.

Noted!

Sounds like an exciting adventure!

But sometimes they come back so hard that they destroy the planet!

Unless there is an alien with a different logical mind. Maybe they would be explaining gravity with light as a language, who knows!

Incense sticks are good if used once in a while, like once in a month, especially if you associate it with something religious. Even a natural perfume can give the same effect. But, if you want to move deeper into Spirituality, you have to learn to break all the associations. Then, the incense stick becomes another experience to love, but nothing special or divine.

I could fly in my dreams though.

You seem to have learnt a lot in the past year. Real growth in my opinion is something very personal. Moving closer towards our life purpose after clearly identifying it could be real growth for atleast most of the people. My definition of real growth is having new and unique experiences in life although I must admit I don't care about growth at all.