http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/10/16/how-to-not-want-things-and-still-be-happy/
I can relate this to my life. My woes and travails in the last few years of my life all stem from this idealised utopian lifestyle that was just round the corner, if I went to university/did drugs/moved into halls/had a lot of sex. When I had the opportunities to realise the potential these things offered, through a mixture of fear of disappointment and failure and pride, I fucked the opportunity up. If only I could have on one hand been prepared to accept and laugh it off when things didn't go to plan after much effort, and on the other accepted my lot in life and stopped trying to be the 'happiest man alive', I would probably be in an objectively much better position in my life right now.
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