RE: Are Happier Times Just an Illusion?

I can totally empathize with that. I suppose there are people out there for whom life turns out (more or less) as they had hoped/expected, and maybe that's the proverbial "carrot" that has somehow helped the rest of us continue in our own quests.

I'm sure I could have created the stereotypical path of success... had I not decided to actually do that "stupid" thing of thinking for myself, rather than blindly follow the groupthink version of what one should strive for in life.

Everything comes with a "price;" there's something we might wish for, but we have to forego something else to get it... even if just in the form of choices we make.