chyron8472 said:
Both the good and the bad in life exist, but it’s your choice what you focus on. It’s not a lie to endeavor to find good in things.That’s not a lie, but it’s still futile.
No it isn’t. If all you can see in life is your shit job and your shit living space, with your shit financial problems and your shit car, then it’s no surprise when people don’t like you if you never have anything nice to say.
Why would I want people to like me?
Because regular positive social interaction has psychological and emotional benefits. Among other reasons.
Lol, yeah right.
This is all just from a single google search.
Research Suggests a Positive Correlation between Social Interaction and Health
https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/living-long-well-21st-century-strategic-directions-research-aging/research-suggests-positive
Social Interaction Is Critical for Mental and Physical Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/well/live/having-friends-is-good-for-you.html
Face-to-Face Social Contact Reduces Risk of Depression
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201510/face-face-social-contact-reduces-risk-depression
Mental health and social relationships
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/evidence-briefings/mental-health-and-social-relationships/
Key findings
Adults with no friends are the worst off psychologically. There are significant health cost implications from the impact of this social isolation.
The importance of friendships and family networks is not affected by education, employment or marital/cohabiting status.
For women, regular contact with a large family network doesn’t necessarily lead to a higher level of wellbeing. These networks can actually place more obligations and burdens on them. Instead, the research found that women’s friendship networks are more important.
However, men did better when they had a large number of friends or family members. Family networks don’t seem to place the same burdens on men as on women.
Volunteering is not as effective as a social network in protecting the psychological health of working-age people. It does not compensate for the loss of work relationships for people without jobs. However, volunteering was positive for the wellbeing of older people who had retired.
Friendships appear to be important across many nations. A French study showed that having no social exchange with neighbours has a large negative impact on men’s and women’s quality of life. This found that people physically isolated from their friends who maintained wellbeing did so by establishing relationships with neighbours instead.
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