Don’t Try To Be Happy, Just Try To Be Better

Alden Tan
2 min readOct 17, 2018

When we get triggered and start to feel a little sense of discomfort that leads to all sorts of unpleasant emotions, be it rage, sadness and even depression, our immediate response is usually, “I need to be happy now.”

That’s actually not a good thing.

Why? Because it is overwhelming.

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