People always ask what the real meaning of happiness is. Is it having the latest car model? Is it having a seven figured bank account? Is it having a gorgeous partner? Or is it finding the real meaning to life? They say that true happiness could be achieved once a person attains enlightenment, that slams the ignorance is bliss cliché. Well happiness from material things is just illusions; they’ll all going to disappear in time. A car breaks down and become rusty, money would be spent, good-looking spouses age, houses could catch fire, and even a relationship could end.
The social basis of discontent in modern society is not so much lack of income; it is loneliness, boredom, depression, alienation, self-doubt and the ill health that goes with them. Social exclusion is not so much exclusion from the structures of production and consumption; it is exclusion from social relationships and modes of self-understanding that confer acknowledgement, self-worth and meaning. Also happiness is fleeting in many lives because people want it to automatically happen, it takes work, which is the best work we can ever do in our lifetimes. Life happens and what would help many people is if they could wake up to the reasoning that difficult and unhappy times show us how important it is to bring harmony into the world, which begets happiness into our everyday lives. Life is cruel; the unhappiness that others experience even fuels the pursuit of our own bliss.
Happiness that you get from material things is only temporary and just an illusion. Then what is an illusion? In psychiatry and philosophy the term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a sensory experience in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation so it is perceived in a distorted manner. Well, I always have illusions of happiness. There was one time where I was living in a world that sickness, poverty and crime doesn’t exist. That only beauty exists: music, food, structures and people. No more wars, no more dying, no more discrimination, no more famine and disease. Now, fancy yourself in that world, wouldn’t it be great to live there? But our world is different. We live in a world where all ugliness and defilement exist. Illusionary happiness is hard to keep up with because it is a feeling where we want it all the time and it’s become an obsession. Like an addiction to an illegal substance that we know isn’t really helping your problems but rather intensify it. Illusions are not real and must be viewed as such. Some people live illusionary lives but aren’t really happy and content with what they have. Illusionary happiness is only temporary and ends but real happiness is when you do something that you love the most and be content with it. Happiness gained from following your heart then become contented is what some call enlightenment. As Paulo Coelho said in his book The Alchemist: “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” We may have seen all the beauty in the world but to the really happy and contented soul even a flutter of a butterfly could be more interesting than Paris Hilton's sex video.
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Pasensya na. Wala kasi magawa. Ahahaha!
The social basis of discontent in modern society is not so much lack of income; it is loneliness, boredom, depression, alienation, self-doubt and the ill health that goes with them. Social exclusion is not so much exclusion from the structures of production and consumption; it is exclusion from social relationships and modes of self-understanding that confer acknowledgement, self-worth and meaning. Also happiness is fleeting in many lives because people want it to automatically happen, it takes work, which is the best work we can ever do in our lifetimes. Life happens and what would help many people is if they could wake up to the reasoning that difficult and unhappy times show us how important it is to bring harmony into the world, which begets happiness into our everyday lives. Life is cruel; the unhappiness that others experience even fuels the pursuit of our own bliss.
Happiness that you get from material things is only temporary and just an illusion. Then what is an illusion? In psychiatry and philosophy the term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a sensory experience in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation so it is perceived in a distorted manner. Well, I always have illusions of happiness. There was one time where I was living in a world that sickness, poverty and crime doesn’t exist. That only beauty exists: music, food, structures and people. No more wars, no more dying, no more discrimination, no more famine and disease. Now, fancy yourself in that world, wouldn’t it be great to live there? But our world is different. We live in a world where all ugliness and defilement exist. Illusionary happiness is hard to keep up with because it is a feeling where we want it all the time and it’s become an obsession. Like an addiction to an illegal substance that we know isn’t really helping your problems but rather intensify it. Illusions are not real and must be viewed as such. Some people live illusionary lives but aren’t really happy and content with what they have. Illusionary happiness is only temporary and ends but real happiness is when you do something that you love the most and be content with it. Happiness gained from following your heart then become contented is what some call enlightenment. As Paulo Coelho said in his book The Alchemist: “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” We may have seen all the beauty in the world but to the really happy and contented soul even a flutter of a butterfly could be more interesting than Paris Hilton's sex video.
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Pasensya na. Wala kasi magawa. Ahahaha!
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