I want to feel good about
c. My future
Analysis
What good do you want to do?
Why do you want to feel good about your relationship?
I want to feel good about my relationship, because
a. It is not going well, so it makes me feel bad, and I just want to feel good.
b. It is going well and I want a(nother) child. But then the question is: Why do you want a child? I.e. what do you really want?
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Why do you want to feel good about your achievements?
I want to feel good about my achievements, because
a. I’m approaching the end of my life. If so, find your solution here.
b I’m still young. If so, better focus on your future instead, or else find your solution here.
c. I’m in the blossom of my life. If so, again better focus on your future, or find your solution here.
Why do you want to feel good about your future?
I want to feel good about my future, because
a. It is not looking good with all that s**t going on. It looks pretty hopeless given the financial crisis, global warming, exploitation, poverty, lying and cheating, scandals, political tension and religious wars. Find your solution here.
b. It see a bright future ahead of me. If so, find your solution here.
Why just feel good?
Since you just want to feel good, I suggest you do something that makes you feel good: Have some candy, a smoke, rob a bank, take a holiday, watch some (comic) tv, smoke some weed, make love, or do whatever it is that makes you forget about your miserable existence, and stimulate the economy by spending money on whatever will get you high, temporarily. So, you go watch an add, do some shopping, or consider the ultimate solution.
If this is not what you were looking for, perhaps your objective was not just having a good feeling per se. So, perhaps go back and try again.
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Why do good to others?
Why would you want to give to do good to others, e.g. give to charity? Are they worth it? Are you so fortunate by heritage or inheritance, or did you practice cunning theft? If you now wallow in wealth and thus can do some good by dropping a few dimes down the gutter, find your solution here.
If not, be blessed! Now, don’t you think you are a saint. So, go back to ‘normal’ and watch an add or do some valuable shopping.
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Why do good for yourself?
Why would you want to do good for yourself, e.g. make love? You selfish egoist! Here is your solution.
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Why do you want to save the world?
Do you really think you can save the world? What makes you think so? Who do you think you are? God? Your solution is this.
Why do you want to acquire a skill?
Why do you want to make money?
Making money is a means to an end. It is not an end in itself. Go back, or find your solution here.
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Why make the right decisions?
Why guide others?
Why would you want to guide others? Who do you think you are? Nelson Mandela? The pope? Peter Singer? Mother Teresa? Jane Goodall? Einstein?
Unless you actually are, of course, this is your solution.
Note
If you are inclined to follow my advice, please note that you are probably not well adapted to this competitive, evil world. In other words, you are probably too good for this world. Therefore, you are definitely worth saving. We need you! So, please find comfort in this thought and then go back to ‘normal’, i.e. watch an add, or do some shopping.
However, if you were not inclined to follow my advice in the first place, you may well be adapted to this world. If so, my advice certainly remains this (but see our disclaimer too).
Postscript: The irony about suicide and its evolutionary complement, the decision not to have any children, is indeed that the wrong kind of people commit to it. Human selection processes are directing us into an unwanted future. Present day free-market democracies lead to excesses like unbounded egoism and seriously compromised animal welfare. The world would be much better off with a lot less people, but we can’t afford to lose the volunteers!