rant · moment 19 of 32
Happiness Without Ambition or a Dream
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436 · #436
2 min
They discuss how people without grand ambitions can still be happy by arranging their lives around small pleasures, even including vices like narcotics or infidelity.
- Tim describes people whose happiness comes from arranging life around a few simple things they like—drugs, infidelity, drunk driving—and insists they're genuinely the happiest people.
- Travel is the most overrated thing, a substitute for having a real personality or perspective.
- People who travel never spend long enough anywhere to learn anything valuable; it's just aesthetics and photos for social media.
- His grandmother lived in the same town for fifty years and had two hundred people at her funeral, having learned more about the world from watching that town change than any constant traveler with a camera.