Being Happy is not the Happiest Way To Be
Plugging out…
It seems that as humans, we’re destined to never really be fully happy…
As Agent Smith challenges us on the “ppppurpose” of human existence, we do realize that our constant struggle to find the ‘purpose’ of happiness is actually, an exercise in vain…
It’s those so-called moments of extreme happiness, when we also feel moments of extreme dissatisfaction… no sooner have we got what we were working towards than we’re dreaming about what’s next… how do I get happier.. .what’s the next happiness I want!
You get the woman you love, you’re looking for that house you want to build together… you get the car you’ve desired, you’re looking for the next car… you get the project you were looking for, you’re looking for delivering successfully against the project…
In short, you’re never really happy… the minute you’re happy…you’re not!
And so we find that our entire life towards this search for happiness is, in fact, completely futile… Agent Smith is right after all… Our entire human existence is doomed to never really reach its goal, never really find its purpose, never really be happy…
Yet we’re searching, we’re existing, we’re looking, we’re hoping, we’re dreaming, we’re working, we’re loving, we’re running, we’re moving… we’re living…
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But... perhaps, there in lies the answer, may be ‘happiness’ is not the best state to be … ‘happiness’ is not the purpose… being happy is not the happiest way to be…
Are you happier when you’re preparing for a first date or when the date actually happens? Are you happier when you’re wooing the woman you love or when she finally says yes…. looking forward to the new movie vs. the movie itself, waiting for the results (job, school, college, whatever) vs. when success actually happens to you… I could go on…
May be Steven Tyler knew it all along… Life IS a journey, not a destination… and the true purpose of our lives is the journey towards this mystical, mythical, elusive, unachievable goal… It HAS to be…
So, is STRIVING through life towards happiness the purpose of our lives… Is our striving our happiness… Is our never-achieving happiness, our happiness?
If so, here’s a toast to never really being happy… Cheers!
For now… plugging back in…
It seems that as humans, we’re destined to never really be fully happy…
As Agent Smith challenges us on the “ppppurpose” of human existence, we do realize that our constant struggle to find the ‘purpose’ of happiness is actually, an exercise in vain…It’s those so-called moments of extreme happiness, when we also feel moments of extreme dissatisfaction… no sooner have we got what we were working towards than we’re dreaming about what’s next… how do I get happier.. .what’s the next happiness I want!
You get the woman you love, you’re looking for that house you want to build together… you get the car you’ve desired, you’re looking for the next car… you get the project you were looking for, you’re looking for delivering successfully against the project…
In short, you’re never really happy… the minute you’re happy…you’re not!
And so we find that our entire life towards this search for happiness is, in fact, completely futile… Agent Smith is right after all… Our entire human existence is doomed to never really reach its goal, never really find its purpose, never really be happy…
Yet we’re searching, we’re existing, we’re looking, we’re hoping, we’re dreaming, we’re working, we’re loving, we’re running, we’re moving… we’re living…
------------------- * -----------------
But... perhaps, there in lies the answer, may be ‘happiness’ is not the best state to be … ‘happiness’ is not the purpose… being happy is not the happiest way to be…
Are you happier when you’re preparing for a first date or when the date actually happens? Are you happier when you’re wooing the woman you love or when she finally says yes…. looking forward to the new movie vs. the movie itself, waiting for the results (job, school, college, whatever) vs. when success actually happens to you… I could go on…
May be Steven Tyler knew it all along… Life IS a journey, not a destination… and the true purpose of our lives is the journey towards this mystical, mythical, elusive, unachievable goal… It HAS to be…
So, is STRIVING through life towards happiness the purpose of our lives… Is our striving our happiness… Is our never-achieving happiness, our happiness?
If so, here’s a toast to never really being happy… Cheers!
For now… plugging back in…
posted by Neo at 6:57 pm
1 Comments:
makes u think as always neo...perhaps hapiness is manufactured in the minds factory? Perhaps you need to keep taking joy in the little things you got going. I do an excercise before i go to bed, whenever i can remember that is. Count all the happy things that happened to you today. Things that brightened your day. It may be something really small, but when the little moments begin popping up in your head, they really start to make it look good. Something not so good happened to you today and you find that it stole the thunder from every other seed of joy, like a hungry wild weed.
We humans are pretty screwed up neo - we are wired to want. So you gotta fight that instinct, the ramblings of the devil mind that keeps telling us heck theres more money to be had, a bigger car, a prettier woman, a club membership.
Give thanks every day for what u have, make every little moment count. Shine it, preserve it draw from it. You'll find the perpetual happiness space..it lies within you..diamond in the rough, waiting to shine
sweetchild
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