If you intentionally make yourself miserable can this result in you being happy when you do not do things to make yourself miserable
Does intentionally creating hardship in your life make you more happy in the long run?
@shortstories - So I don't think that approach would work for most people, if anyone at all. It sounds like playing with fire.
I've seen misery ruin a few lives, and many relationships (of all sorts). Sometimes the people ruined by misery were children when they were ruined... and they had no part in the events that led to misery, and no part in the chosen response to misery. They were just at the mercy of a miserable soul.
Sorry to rain on a parade. I'm gonna think happier thoughts now.
@shortstories yes. Why do you think people take ice bathes and shit like that?
However if you're talking about intentional misery and suffering and not merely pain, then no because those are products of mind.
People who make themselves miserable are only temporarily "happy" with a new misery.
This is the condition of the American Left.
@shortstories - Jacuzzis are often located right next to swimming pools. I'll usually jump into the cold pool periodically, just to enhance the warmth of the hot tub.
But that's just sensory contrast. I'm pretty sure that genuine misery is a different beast altogether. I've gone through spells of it. And I've known too many genuinely miserable people.
I have found misery to be self-reinforcing, and self-perpetuating in the absence of great conscious effort to find peace.