A good life is about the burn. It's about going through enough pain and stress in the right circumstance for a result that you have assigned meaning to
A good life nowadays is a kind of masochism of the simple, lower emotions. The more you deny them and work towards higher things, the better you feel. At least if you have provisions of the basic needs. Basic emotions are basic happiness, comfort and stuff like that. Things we've been conditioned to seek out indiscriminately. Things you only ever receive fake analogues of, to a degree, but we'll ignore that right now. Simply, immediacy never lasts long.
Of course, to most people who've grown up in today's society, this sounds like absolute torture. We rarely face large burdens which house greater satisfaction behind them. Most people don't even go that far to see themselves bloom in ways unimaginable.
There's a need for a post positivist society again. With hard truths, hard to swallow pills and honesty that burns your insides and terrifies your brain. Whatever feelings you feel have no value beyond whether they can get you from A to B. They are just symptoms, pointers to where you are or where you could go. Overcoming all of this is the key. Your feelings, your thoughts, your ego.
Become the happy Sisyphus. Feel the burn in your muscles, the sparse air in your lungs, the small rocks painfully poking your soles, the bruises on your knees, the scratches on your arms and the prospect of having to do it all again for the rest of eternity and think to yourself: "Hell yeah. Now this is IT!" There's no other way out of this psychological crisis of the world.
Let's all hurt together :)
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Now you might be thinking to yourself:
"Wow, what's this guy even yapping about"
or, better yet:
"Wow, bro completely missed the point of purpose in life and the importance of emotions in life. How can you talk about 'let's feel pain' when you just said that emotions are a consequence and not the end-all or the purpose."
I can only respond with: "I'm not emotionally ready to accept that truth."
Then you might think:
"Well it's not about whether or not you're ready to face something. You are never really ready to go through anything until you're already 'going through' that situation. If you can't overcome roadblocks simply due to the fact you weren't ready for them, then you're not ready to gain any positive results of your struggles."
Again, I can only respond with: "I'm not emotionally ready to accept that truth."
Then you may think: "Then what's the purpose of you yapping about philosophical concepts if you have A - barely any real knowledge of actual theories and I bet you never read a single book, and B - you don't have a goal or purpose for your philosophical yappology. You only come off like you're trying to stroke your ego, so that you feel a little better about yourself. Or you're thinking that thinking about emotions (which doesn't really work, because you feel emotions, not think them) will somehow solve your deep-rooted feelings of emptiness and shame."
Once again, I can only respond with: "I'm not emotionally ready to accept that truth."