From what I've seen, happiness is those brief moments when you are content with who you are, and everything else around you....when you are at peace with life. But it is only temporary. The true nature of happiness is that it cannot and will not last.. There is too much wrong in the world for it to last. This is why happiness feels so good and is so strongly desired. It allows you to forget about all the bad stuff, just for that one moment.

The main problem here is that if one cannot attain enough of those moments, all the bad stuff takes over. As a result, it becomes impossible to be happy because you cannot forget the bad. And thus life becomes devoid of happiness.

I'm not saying that I myself have never been happy, because I have. It just seems to me that there is no significant reason to fight the bad stuff when all you have to look forward to is a fleeting opportunity to forget about it.

So then why continue fighting? Why not just give in? What keeps us chasing those shreds of peace and happiness that we all seem to be so bent on attaining?

It kind of seems like a pretty pointless cycle to me.

Post edited at 9:33 pm on July 9, 2008 by greatescape11

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I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh

happiness=quiet smile

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No Regrets

and if we felt happy all the time
then it would just be normal
and maybe then it would not have any feeling at all

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The world is only as sweet as you make it and only as terrible as you see it

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because we're all addicted to it. at one point or another, it was all we wanted. and because we're all pretty stupid, we'll keep chasing the ideal until we die trying or hit a brick wall.

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Like I said.  Seems pretty pointless.

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I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh

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Quote: from blufindr at 11:31 pm on July 9, 2008

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because we're all addicted to it. at one point or another, it was all we wanted. and because we're all pretty stupid, we'll keep chasing the ideal until we die trying or hit a brick wall.

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Like I said. Seems pretty pointless.

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Well on that note...
Why live?
I mean we go back right where we started.
the dirt.

So why do we decide to stick around so long for a lost cause?
no matter what we do we have the same fate.

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Quote: from blufindr at 11:31 pm on July 9, 2008

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because we're all addicted to it. at one point or another, it was all we wanted. and because we're all pretty stupid, we'll keep chasing the ideal until we die trying or hit a brick wall.

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Like I said. Seems pretty pointless.

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it IS pointless. but we chase it because we want life to mean something. we (most of us, anyway) want to matter, we want to feel like what we do matter and will keep on mattering after we're gone.
it's the same reason we have religion. to fill the gaps that can't be filled any other way.

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Quote: from greatescape11 at 9:39 pm on July 9, 2008

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Quote: from blufindr at 11:31 pm on July 9, 2008

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because we're all addicted to it. at one point or another, it was all we wanted. and because we're all pretty stupid, we'll keep chasing the ideal until we die trying or hit a brick wall.

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 Like I said.  Seems pretty pointless.

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So why do we decide to stick around so long for a lost cause?

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I have no idea.  And frankly, I'm not interested in finding out.

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I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh

The best I can say is...you're a beautiful girl, you're still young. You still have an excellent chance things will improve so greatly! All hope shouldn't be lost for you yet, honey. It's too soon for you. Hang in there and I do truly honestly with all my heart believe things will get so much better 4 U!!!! I do believe that!:)
Hang on. You'll see...:)...

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we all live. and go through shit. and then we die. so what is the point?

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We try to delude ourselves into thinking there's a point, when in fact there really isn't any point at all.  You live, then you die.  Life sucks.  Doubt death is all that better.

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Death is the ultimate experience. The last thing to die is hope.

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Quote: from DrunkenMess at 10:01 am on July 11, 2008

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we all live. and go through shit.   and then we die.  so what is the point?

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We try to delude ourselves into thinking there's a point, when in fact there really isn't any point at all. You live, then you die. Life sucks. Doubt death is all that better.

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So does it boil down to basically what is worse?  Life or death?

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I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh