10th September 2017.
Rene Descartes was always the champion advocate of thinking. As a story goes, once a group of friends visited him one morning only to find him still in his bed. When asked, he replied he was thinking and one shall always strive to reflect and think, that makes humans 'human'.
I was thinking, and I think a lot these days, about happiness. Things that make us happy and what opposes that, it was a general thought process. I came to a sort of conclusion.
Happiness as an emotion or a state of mind is always in a dwindling position. Two things are always true about that - we all want to be happy, for us and others too (depends on your altruism or a general sense). Secondly, we can never be ultimately content; the one who says that he's totally content is lying.
Conclusion - I was happy till I understood that I could have been happier, and that makes me sad. Things don't pan out as I would like them to be, I can only accept and move forward, even if it means I cannot have that particular happiness.
R.
Rene Descartes was always the champion advocate of thinking. As a story goes, once a group of friends visited him one morning only to find him still in his bed. When asked, he replied he was thinking and one shall always strive to reflect and think, that makes humans 'human'.
I was thinking, and I think a lot these days, about happiness. Things that make us happy and what opposes that, it was a general thought process. I came to a sort of conclusion.
Happiness as an emotion or a state of mind is always in a dwindling position. Two things are always true about that - we all want to be happy, for us and others too (depends on your altruism or a general sense). Secondly, we can never be ultimately content; the one who says that he's totally content is lying.
Conclusion - I was happy till I understood that I could have been happier, and that makes me sad. Things don't pan out as I would like them to be, I can only accept and move forward, even if it means I cannot have that particular happiness.
R.
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