Personal Perceptions Flaw

For as long as I can remember (late teens, I think) I've held the opinion that most people will take an opportunity that stands even a mediocre chance at giving them a happier, more fulfilling life. All, I thought, was needed was for the opportunity to really look like an opportunity in their thinking.

I've let go of this opinion.

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I have been more or less continually frustrated by all this. But that frustration was only a response to the difference between what is really happening and what I thought SHOULD be happening. In the conversation "People should want to be happy and fulfilled", there is little hope of avoiding frustration.

There is no "should." People are who they are, think what they think, suffer what they suffer and do what they do. My thinking they could be or should be happier, more fulfilled, etc. is just me sliding between Group One and Group Two. I'd rather spend my time at one end or the other of Group Three. Doesn't matter which end. :)