In my opinion unrealized happiness is not equal to grief.
Grief is a negative factor that directly impacts your life, like your car breaking down, or dreading going home to your spouse.
Grief can be the lack of free time or the abundance of it.
Grief is not I could be x units of happiness happier if I moved to California, therefore I am x units of happy less than I could potentially be.
I think most people know when something is missing in their life. They know if they HATE going to their job. They know if they HATE their neighborhood. In those cases, by all means seeks something better.
Basically this is the same argument has the "I want the best of everything" articles and the 50 dollar utensils. Many people pointed out you don't need the best or the worst you need good enough. What good enough is, is going to change from person to person. However I think we all have a pretty good idea about what good enough (both materialistically, and philosophically).
Grief is a negative factor that directly impacts your life, like your car breaking down, or dreading going home to your spouse.
Grief can be the lack of free time or the abundance of it.
Grief is not I could be x units of happiness happier if I moved to California, therefore I am x units of happy less than I could potentially be.
I think most people know when something is missing in their life. They know if they HATE going to their job. They know if they HATE their neighborhood. In those cases, by all means seeks something better.
Basically this is the same argument has the "I want the best of everything" articles and the 50 dollar utensils. Many people pointed out you don't need the best or the worst you need good enough. What good enough is, is going to change from person to person. However I think we all have a pretty good idea about what good enough (both materialistically, and philosophically).
Aristotle was right, in my opinion.