The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness

Darius Foroux
Stoic Letter
5 min readOct 3, 2016

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For the longest time, I believed that there’s only purpose of life: And that is to be happy.

Right? Why else go through all the pain and hardship? It’s to achieve happiness in some way.

And I’m not the only person who believed that. In fact, if you look around you, most people are pursuing happiness in their lives.

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Darius Foroux
Stoic Letter

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