# You're Happier There

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-02-12

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You’re also sadder there.

Richer there.

Poorer there.

More successful there.

Less successful there.

But “there” isn’t the future. And it’s not the past.

It’s another present, one co-existing with you now in some other alternative universe.

The opportunity is to connect with that alternative present, the one with which are you entangled.

Take comfort in knowing that there’s another version of you, right now, that is doing just fine.

And be grateful, because there’s another version of you where things are much, much worse.

Align your heart with all of your hearts across these distances.

The beating of your thousand-million hearts can help bring equanimity to the one you feel in your chest.

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