What do you want?

Dr. Joy Bliss writes at Maggie's Farm,

A TV station asked a guy in the Powerball line in a bodega in New York what he would do with the money if he won. He said he'd spend it on hookers and cocaine. Wonderful reply, but probably lying for the most part.

Do people focus too much about what they want, or too little? Well, everybody is different. I routinely disparage general discussions about "happiness." I never disparage people having personal life goals or direction, as long as they can be flexible in the face of harsh realities. But there is no generic definition of any universal details of happiness, and a large category of people is only happy when unhappy, upset, stressed, or in chaos because such things sort-of organize their thinking and thus help them feel "better".

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