For a while now I was braving myself to start writing about one thing that appears to be a reoccurring motive in my life, thing that I believe to be the ultimate goal of human existence, thing that humanity searches for with a varying rate of success, a thing that many want and a few have. Please let me introduce you to Happiness.
Working definition: happiness is a positive state of inner peace and fulfillment.
I'm going to tell you that happiness is, like Lego, built of various components and hence it can be achieved and modeled by working on it's smaller parts. With a little bit of training, time and dedication anyone can find their way to happiness. It is not a chance and not luck and not outer causes that make happiness in us. It is due to our doing in the world and our interactions with it.
Most of the issues that I am going to mention have a rational and scientific background (do your own research if you wish). Some of them are universals, some are more culture dependent (I write all of this from a white, European perspective). Some might be completely wrong. All I have is my 33 year old wisdom, a sense of observation, a handbag of life experience and some psychology background. But I know that there is a pattern, that there is an easier way than blind walk, that many people strive for fulfillment and that some people are unhappy. I can only hope that someone will find this useful or even vaguely interesting. See what works for you, give it a go. And if nothing more, this is my challenge that I take upon myself to make my life more worthwhile, richer and happier than it was ever before.
As my ex-friend said once: Everyone has right to be happy.
2 comments:
Good stuff, Astro. Coincidentally, I happened recently upon a slight variation on the same theme through meditation, thus hold a practical view on the subject of happiness, which I chose to call love. Hope you find the comments worthwhile :0)
- 'happiness is, like Lego, built of various components' - I've been VERY slowly learning to move toward happiness/love as in a path along which I release myself from external dependencies/ things, resulting thus in an absence of 'components';
- 'It is not a chance and not luck and not outer causes that make happiness in us.' - agree 100%!; and
- 'It is due to our doing in the world and our interactions with it.' - I find that our doings in the world and interactions change as a consequence of detachment and the love that remains as a result of detachment i.e. relationships improve as I learn how to not seek but rather give love, regardless :0)
Good stuff, Astro. Coincidentally, I happened recently upon a slight variation on the same theme through meditation, thus hold a practical view on the subject of happiness, which I chose to call love. Hope you find the comments worthwhile :0)
- 'happiness is, like Lego, built of various components' - I've been VERY slowly learning to move toward happiness/love as in a path along which I release myself from external dependencies/ things, resulting thus in an absence of 'components';
- 'It is not a chance and not luck and not outer causes that make happiness in us.' - agree 100%!; and
- 'It is due to our doing in the world and our interactions with it.' - I find that our doings in the world and interactions change as a consequence of detachment and the love that remains as a result of detachment i.e. relationships improve as I learn how to not seek but rather give love, regardless :0)
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