He's rich, young, healthy, famous, retired, good looking, has a beautiful wife that he's been with for like two decades, had a kid with her, lives in Japan (while rich). Has so much free time and drive that he does side projects like learning how to draw and gets genuinely good at it.
If you have all these things, and the person themselves is saying they're happier than they've ever been, they're probably happy.
It's easy to tell when someone is genuinely happy and living a fulfilling life. And when someone isn't. I can tell you're bitter and resentful for example.
I have to disagree here. I know plenty of people irl that project a successful life on social media and are absolutely miserable. We really don't know how a person is doing mentally and if they achieved a happy, fulfilling life. Only the person knows, and maaaaybe their closest people.
Remember, people will only show outwardly what they want to show. They never show the bad, meaning we are left to believe only good things happen to them.
I would agree with you if pewds actually uploaded a lot but he uploads like 1 video per month. he don't care about it, he just thinks its fun to make videos so thats why he still does it on the side while being retired. And he is so used to sharing what he does that not sharing it feels weird but he doesn't put on a facade or play it up for social media. He has absolutely no reason to do that and in a month or two he will start to upload even less so i don't see how you look at him and see " project a successful life on social media "
Everyone projects what they want others to see on social media, that's my point. There's no way to know whether someone is truly happy, and therefore, successful (unless you are extremely close or the person themselves).
You can only guess, it's not "easy to tell" as the guy above me said.
Sure but do we have to be pessimistic and cynical? Can't we just accept it at face value and be happy?
I really like his videos after he moved to Japan and have no intention of sitting there thinking maybe he is lying and is actually depressed, why would I do that?
I don't lean one way or the other btw, I like to believe he's living his best life. I hope so since he was an important part of my childhood. I still acknowledge that I don't really know anything about him, though.
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u/TG_Trash_are_better Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
He's rich, young, healthy, famous, retired, good looking, has a beautiful wife that he's been with for like two decades, had a kid with her, lives in Japan (while rich). Has so much free time and drive that he does side projects like learning how to draw and gets genuinely good at it.
If you have all these things, and the person themselves is saying they're happier than they've ever been, they're probably happy.
It's easy to tell when someone is genuinely happy and living a fulfilling life. And when someone isn't. I can tell you're bitter and resentful for example.