Unhappy? Maybe Your Expectations are Just Too Damn High

“He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.” – Dutch Proverb

I found this proverb in a book published in 1852. So forget Maslow’s hierachy of needs and all of that namby-pamby new age stuff about self actualization and personal growth. Just not dying a tragic death was all it took to be happy in the good old days, when life was less complicated.