Have Smartphones Made Us Happier? – Dialectic Two-Step

I would argue that if we look for happiness in smartphones, we’re doing it wrong. Happiness – a temporary thing – can come in two ways:

The world lines up with our preferences (we get what we want or we avoid what we don’t want).  How often does this happen?
We line up with the way the world is. This happens when we acknowledge that things don’t always work out the way we want and recognize that we can have a meaningful life if we avoid wallowing in disappointment

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. - Octavio

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