Sunday, March 15, 2009

On happiness in la la land

We must all understand that we are humans. Our biology make us the fifth ape, but we are given the gift of thought. We create things to sustain our happiness or find it for those that lack it. Our emotions, creations, ideas and psychology all intertwine to make us feel fundamentally good or bad. Each human being must strike his own balance. Create himself, but his creation must only serve one purpose, to become a man of goodness. Not righteousness, but goodness. Right and good are two separate entities. Emotion and logic also are quite different. We must ask ourselves, what is more important, truth or emotional security? For example if we know someone is truly happy, but is living in what a thinking man would call ignorance of the truth, should we step in and highlight his ignorance? Thus leading him into the abyss that life is?

Maybe the truth is, there are no truths at all. No best way to live. No right or wrong. Nothing like 'this is what you should do...' No truths, just comfort in ideas. Comfort for minds that cannot comprehend that we are not right in any of our actions. Maybe thats what make the world go around, comfort. Maybe comfort means contentment, and contentment means happiness.

Nature -> Essence -> Death

Our nature is that we seek, we desire, ultimately for comfort. Comfort of heart. We soon realize that desiring the comfort never gives one comfort. This is the ultimate trap. Freedom of this desire is true freedom. That is a free spirit, a desire-less beast.

You are born into nature. You create the essence of what you want to be in the present and future. Then you will die. More than 99.9% of past, present and future peoples will never know you existed, let alone what you did on earth. So why be hungry, why have a zest for life, why life in true goodness? You do it for YOU. No one else's eyes, but your own. So you can say, with true conviction that you are what you are.

You are all the author's of your condition.