No, the opposite of happiness is hopelessness, an endless gray horizon of resignation and indifference.3 It’s the belief that everything is fucked, so why do anything at all?
“He thought of Heraclitus: a man cannot step in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.”
― The Forgetting Time
― The Forgetting Time
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