I understand what you are saying handyandy...and I think we are saying the same thing. Happy but deluded is still happy - so apparently that's OK. Deluded nonetheless.
In society however, people, intelligent people at least, judge / compare and improve accordingly. Every intelligent person does this hundreds of time every day. IMO this is a good thing, and the root cause of our evolvement and development. It's why we live together in large groups. I don't know too many successful hermits who never interact and never read about others accomplishments in newspapers, listen to the radio or watch TV.
Sitting in a humpy out in the desert being happy is not successful. Within your own context is meaningless.
Being deluded into thinking everything is just honky-dory when in fact it is very mediocre, if not pathetic, is not a sign of bliss. I guess I just don't buy into this whole theory of "whatever works for you is just great".
Lots of posters post about it on here and it is never challenged. It's too much effort to contradict for no benefit, so I just say nothing. Doesn't mean I agree with anything they are saying. But then - so what.
You could of banged on all day about the chap in your example handyandy, about how mediocre what he had achieved was, but then what's the point ?? He thinks he's a hero and you'll just make a pork chop out of yourself and an enemy for life if you say anything other than well done.
Mediocrity being praised as excellence out of self-deprecation, and excellence being ignored out of jealousy....it's the fashionable, popular and politically correct way to behave nowadays.
In society however, people, intelligent people at least, judge / compare and improve accordingly. Every intelligent person does this hundreds of time every day. IMO this is a good thing, and the root cause of our evolvement and development. It's why we live together in large groups. I don't know too many successful hermits who never interact and never read about others accomplishments in newspapers, listen to the radio or watch TV.
Sitting in a humpy out in the desert being happy is not successful. Within your own context is meaningless.
Being deluded into thinking everything is just honky-dory when in fact it is very mediocre, if not pathetic, is not a sign of bliss. I guess I just don't buy into this whole theory of "whatever works for you is just great".
Lots of posters post about it on here and it is never challenged. It's too much effort to contradict for no benefit, so I just say nothing. Doesn't mean I agree with anything they are saying. But then - so what.
You could of banged on all day about the chap in your example handyandy, about how mediocre what he had achieved was, but then what's the point ?? He thinks he's a hero and you'll just make a pork chop out of yourself and an enemy for life if you say anything other than well done.
Mediocrity being praised as excellence out of self-deprecation, and excellence being ignored out of jealousy....it's the fashionable, popular and politically correct way to behave nowadays.