HAPPINESS IS OVERRATED - Argument against To my mind, nobody actually offered a good argument against my previous post on the subject. May be my current profile pic is a deterrent towards healthy arguments but let me assure you that i dont bite. So let me argue against my self. On that post, I said that we dont have to look for happiness, both happiness and sadness will come on their own. I must warn you tho, that this wont make a fun read As human beings, we need a certain measure of comfort in order to function effectively. We also need certain things that we now take for granted to exist at all. We need warmth, light, we need gravity and a base to rest our weight on what we know as the world that we are standing on now and without it we will be flying around and cant even pee properly. And there may be a few other things that I cant think of for the moment but that three things are enough for this purpose. Why do we need this thing? We need this things becoz the initial state of being is the reverse of what we need. The initial state, of the universe is cold, dark and without gravity. So it can be argued that this is the true and original form of being, what was initially created. The warmth, light and gravity are IMPOSED on this initial state. To illustrate my point, coldness and darkness are natural. If we have a fire or the sun, we will have warmth and light. If its removed, darkness and coldness will come naturally without us doing anything about it. What we dont want will come if there is a void caused by the absence of what we want for our existence and comfort. So all our lives, we have to make efforts for what we need, which for lack of better labels we will call it positive things, becoz if we stop then what we dont want, what we will call the negative things, will naturally and automatically comes to fill the space that is left by the positive things. If we can accept this as a law, a law of nature or a law of existence or whatever, then we could extend this to all parts of our existence. We can assume that there will only be hunger with the absence of food. There will be pain in the absence of health. There will be ugliness in the absence of beauty. There will be chaos in the absence of law. There will only be evil in the absence of virtue. All of the positive things have to be worked on, all the negative things will come naturally. On the same line of thought, we can argue that there will only be sadness in the absence of happiness. If this is so then happiness is something that we have to work on too. Something that we have to make an effort to obtain. Without it, sadness will naturally comes to fill the void.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:56:10 +0000
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