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applegrove

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1. I've read it. Happy people are a little
Sat May 4, 2013, 03:15 AM
May 2013

delusional. Sad people not so much. Think of what happens at the end of a bout of sadness: you accept some unfortunate truth about yourself or the world around you, you perhaps cry, then you reconnect to the world with this new understanding, albeit on a slightly different path than you were on before. But that path has helped you grow and see the world without your rose colored glasses. You are closer to self actualization. And you could not have gotten there had you remained happy only.

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