the formula is so simple

[Winyan Numpa]

not to relativize human needs and experience, but i think it all depends on your baseline brain chemistry. some can function like hobos all their life, some are legit miserable and in agony despite being able to slay hot women, having a ton of friends, a rich social life and a functional family. obv these are extremes, but you get the point

i have vast social experience and i have yet to meet a person who was miserable as fuck and then randomly got a girlfriend and/or a friend group and became a happy go lucky hippie, and vice versa, someone who was super happy with great romantic and social life, lost 1-2 close people and turned into a wreck

maslows strikes agen, never met anyone in those extremes tho