One of the perplexing parts regarding measuring one's own happiness is the fact that it cannot necessarily be measured solely by one's own standards.
In other words, your happiness is slightly but partially dependent on how happy other people think you are, unless you are so totally disconnected from other people, and their immediate reations to you, so as to render you schizophrenic. Even schizophrenics seem to respond to what other people think about them.
As such, you can't just "live by your own standards" even if you want to, or, maybe more importantly, even if you think you do.
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