"People assume that achieving a certain goal or winning the lottery will bring lasting happiness, Mr. Hsieh of Zappos said, but it rarely does. “Most of the frameworks for happiness conclude that there are four things required: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (meaning the depths of relationships) and being part of something bigger than yourself.” "
Perceived control in Lithuania is zero. Work as much as you want, you will be 40 years old and some crazy old aunt who has become in vague ways the owner of a huge Russian-built fertilizer factory will tell you that she has sucked you for so many years and no longer wants to suck you (means, looking for a younger person).
Perceived progress ends when she finds that younger one.
The connection (which means the depth of the relationship) is non-existent in Lithuania. If you are not a relative, then in Lithuania you are only worth the mockery that starts at school.
Being part of something bigger than yourself - your state will not protect you. It constantly schemes how to make easier to fire you, how to pay you a lower allowance in the case unemployment, how to pay your children for work less than most, how to rip off you with a higher price for gas and electricity than the market price, how to steal money for defense using golden spoons, how to stop caring for you when you turn 40, or especially if you stretch even to retirement.
The conclusion is that happiness in Lithuania, which we have created ourselves, is impossible. And what is prosperity without happiness? Prosperity for whom? For that aunt from the fertilizer factory? Nausėda himself? His underlings?
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