What is it with happiness, and its constant seek? Personally, I find it to be a conundrum.
Distressing for many to hear, I don’t believe in happiness, Joy, glee, bliss, gratitude or how ever you want to call it. Happiness for me is an immense utopia, sort of like a myth, instilled to us by preceding generations; (you know along the lines of Santa, the tooth fairy blah blah blah…) recently, being a good and righteous law student (*cough…bullshit…cough*) I also discovered that Happiness has evolved into a human right of the 4th generation, like some sort of mandatory task… my my! And regardless of it all, we manage to make our lives a continuous and relentless pursuit of the so called happiness (and truth be told it always ends up in total and utter failure), which for me, is a clear indicator that none of us is in fact “happy”!…reality is, we are expected to be joyous, grateful creatures, essentially for the whole being alive thing, either we want it or not. And to be honest, maybe it doesn’t all lay on being happy. Coming to think about it, maybe it’s like Kant said… “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination” perhaps its not a destination or purpose to be found, but solely the way how we choose to travel…maybe happiness has nothing to do with being happy, but with acknowledging what is it that you have, being aware of our merits, and those of others…our personal triumphs, the friends we decide to have in our lives, and those who didn’t, but are. For me, happiness defines itself into courageousness, bravery, having quite some guts... for that is what it takes to live the day by day and still remain standing.
Distressing for many to hear, I don’t believe in happiness, Joy, glee, bliss, gratitude or how ever you want to call it. Happiness for me is an immense utopia, sort of like a myth, instilled to us by preceding generations; (you know along the lines of Santa, the tooth fairy blah blah blah…) recently, being a good and righteous law student (*cough…bullshit…cough*) I also discovered that Happiness has evolved into a human right of the 4th generation, like some sort of mandatory task… my my! And regardless of it all, we manage to make our lives a continuous and relentless pursuit of the so called happiness (and truth be told it always ends up in total and utter failure), which for me, is a clear indicator that none of us is in fact “happy”!…reality is, we are expected to be joyous, grateful creatures, essentially for the whole being alive thing, either we want it or not. And to be honest, maybe it doesn’t all lay on being happy. Coming to think about it, maybe it’s like Kant said… “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination” perhaps its not a destination or purpose to be found, but solely the way how we choose to travel…maybe happiness has nothing to do with being happy, but with acknowledging what is it that you have, being aware of our merits, and those of others…our personal triumphs, the friends we decide to have in our lives, and those who didn’t, but are. For me, happiness defines itself into courageousness, bravery, having quite some guts... for that is what it takes to live the day by day and still remain standing.
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Well personally I'm sure as hell not happy...Happiness is a state of mind. It's an illusion we create to feel good about ourselves but it only lasts so much 'cause then reality kicks in and you realize that there is so much left to do that you just really don't want to do. I blame life and all it's issues. I blame reality...Hell...I BLAME MEN!!!! But that's another story =P Anyways, the bottom line is, whenever you feel that joyous feeling, that glee, that uthopia....ENJOY IT (like Coca-Cola) cause it won't last....
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