Are you happy when you're content? Or are you content when you're happy? Is happiness a result of success and achievement? Or by embracing a set of religious ideals, i.e. "divine" joy? Or when love is found and recognized, and drowned by the swirl of passion?
What's so great about happiness anyway? It is inherently a temporal event. Constant happiness requires a constant renewal of reasons to be happy. Otherwise those reasons fade into meaninglessness. Its like a fire, which burns up the fuel that drives it. And all it ultimately does is provide a contrast for when the fire is out and you're miserably shivering in your boots.
At the same time it is more than a fire. Fire can run on the same type of fuel over and over again. Happiness is rather more greedy. Once you give happiness a reason for being, you'll have to give it a better reason the next time. And and even better one the next time over. And in this world, there are only so many reasons you can give. A finite world begets finite happiness.
Fie, Happiness, fie! Go prey upon some other sad soul. Better to be content, says I.
"I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you."
I wish.
To change who I used to be
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you."
I wish.
3 comments:
I suppose one can constantly be happy if they adopt a thankful attitude. Appreciating the littlest things in life. Being content is a rather passive approach; being thankful is a proactive approach. =)
Btw, what are you wishing for? xD
I don't really know. It just seemed like an interesting way to end the post. =P
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i wan my lotr stuff pls?
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juz using tis post to say..
-Euffie-
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