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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 2744983, member: 93"] I don't know much about Fieri, but I do believe that "happiness," as many people understand it, is fleeting on a day-to-day, day-in, day-out basis. If you believe you should be happy all the time, and you think everyone else is, it could cause you to think there is something wrong with you if you aren't, and/or it could cause you to use artificial means like recreational drugs to excess in an ultimately losing battle to stay happy all the time. I also think social media has worsened this dynamic in at least three ways: (1) viewing other people's highly curated online "selves" gives a skewed perspective of how happy they are; (2) spending so much time on phones instead of engaged in genuine human interaction increases isolation and loneliness; and (3) being exposed to a universe of dysfunction, including a culture in which self-harmful behaviors are celebrated, increases the chances of experimentation with those behaviors. [/QUOTE]