From 5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't)
"This may be why studies show friendships, altruism and religious practices bring happiness. It may be that taking the focus off your own happiness is what makes happiness possible."
This is so true. One thing that I would like to add is that people who are really into self-improvement, and talk about self-care, are in fact deluding themselves. The only way to be happy is to take the focus off of your own happiness and focus that love of self to love of the universe.
I think that this might be due to the way that our brains have been constructed by evolution, but I have to do more thinking on this before I can present a really cogent argument.
And it's past my bedtime. :)
