Your life is made up of many different facets. Don't focus on one aspect of your life so much that you can't experience pleasure if that one area is unsettled. It can become all you think about, and it can deaden your enjoyment of everything else—things you would otherwise love.
Would you invest every dollar you had in the stock of one company?
Of course not. Every expert you could possibly consult would tell you to invest by diversifying. You shouldn't place all your hopes on one company or even one kind of company. Instead,
you should intelligently pursue a variety of investments, with no one central investment capable of ruining your savings.
The same applies to living your life: you should diversify your hopes. Don't pin all your hopes on getting a promotion and wind up ruining what could have been a satisfying home life by lack of
progress in the office.
Don't define your life based on having a perfect relationship with one family member and wind up feeling devastated by a strained relationship.
Build your hopes around the many things that are important to you, and allow yourself to benefit from the different things that contribute to your life, rather than allowing yourself to be
devastated by a single bump in the road.
In an experiment in which subjects were asked to discuss the life satisfaction of others, subjects tended to calculate likelihood of happiness on an "averaging" scale. That is, happiness was associated with people whose lives were generally positive in multiple areas that mattered to them.
Bhargava 1995
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