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Wow. That's a lot of questions. I'll try one by one.
1) You shouldn't have to try to be happy. Happiness is a state of being; it's a mindset, but one worked at. When you are happy, you are happy. Your perception is warped, all the events you perceive are interpreted by your happy-drugged brain. Equally, when you are (__sad/angry,etc__) the same effect applies. But if you're trying to force yourself to be happy, you are interpreting events with your sadness-brain and trying to mull them over and morph them into happiness. Kind of a convoluted example, but the best I could think of.
2) Murphy's Law- what can go wrong, will go wrong. The more you try to keep water in your cupped hands, the more it seems to slip out. No matter what, it will slip out anyway. But because you pay it so much attention, it seems more so.
3) Happiness an illusion? No more than depression. Perception is reality, and as I said before, easily warped.
4) Fuck optimists, it's human nature. Why do you think laissez-faire economics works so well? Because every man is out for his own interests, and when they are at stake, it is incentive to do right (basically.) The more you have, the more you want. If you were given a million bucks, would you buy your family a nice house and yourself a car, or would you give it to the homeless coke-head down the street? Is that greed?
5) I wouldn't say humans are cold-hearted. They just look out for yours-truly first and foremost, and people view that as cold hearted. Like the above-example.
6) Why should we try? Well, why not? That's like saying "Since we're going to die someday, we should all commit suicide now." Ahem, the point of death is to make life sweeter, since it is so fleeting. The point of sadness is to make happiness more fulfilling. If you were happy from the day you were born to the day you died, you'd never know it.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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