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My main goal in life is to be happy. I have other goals, but if working on them for the n-th straight day comes in conflict with my main goal, I'm gonna take a day off.

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Have you reached your main goal?

Any tips for reaching it?

Isn't 'being happy' everyone's goal?

To varying degrees. Most people will sacrifice their own happiness for their children's, for example. Or their spouse's, and so on.

Some people have not reached the goal, which is why I asked.

Isn't sacrificing their own happiness a little bit like happiness by proxy then? Maybe that's too broad an interpretation. It leads to the (old) question of whether there is true selflessness.

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