Thanks for your input, and your inspiring words. I agree completely about happiness right now being the only thing that matters; in a billion years all your actions will have been forgotten anyways. I'm definitely not living in the present then, since I'm either depressed or anxious basically all the time. Does it count as living in the present even if you are far away in your own fictive universe? Funny that you mention the Slight Edge: I've already read that book twice, haha. But thanks for the recommendation anyways, it truly is excellent Your own fictive universe could be just another way to escape life, if you're truly "living" there. But who am i to judge Well that's great If i may ask, do you apply the slight edge in your life? I think I do. I have a quite a few habits that keep moving my life in a positive direction, but (as said in the book), they tend to feel so small and meaningless that they can't possibly matter, right? But I'll believe that they do, and keep doing them. My biggest slight edge-action would be my writing. Since I want to become an author the single most important thing for me to do is write, and that I do every day. Hence the fictive worlds-part. I'm sure sooner or later they will show their positive effects