2006-10-02 09:29:10 · 17 answers · asked by melon_rose 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes. When all is going right, we seldom stop to question it all.
2006-10-02 09:31:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mama R 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have been wondering why all my life about everything, from why are we here, and "why is there a something rather than a nothing" since I as a child. As I grew up and I saw that my questions had no definitive answers, at first I rebelled against the terrible fate that we humans have for a lot, namely: The thirst to know and the impossibility to quench that thirst completely. Our inate desire for hapiness in all our actions, and being unable to possess it or know it fully, the beautiful conscience of being alive and the ominous awareness of our own end. I rebelled against it all and got very depressed as I became a teenager and passed my teens. I looked for many ways to numb myself from the constant feeling of selfawareness, triying to ignore the impostergable. As I grew I came to realize that all those questions I had in my mind had been already made by a hundred men before and many as much had gievn a thousandfold answers to these questions, that these questions were eternal and that the wondering "why" constituted not only the starting point for getting off our bellies but it also constituted the perfect end in which our intellect fulfills its being...and everything changed...I started to really live, as a human being, alive and present, aware and conscious of this irreplaceable moment we have, and stopped living like a shadow, or like a machine programed to perform and to execute social routines purposelessly...I became fully alive as I reconciliated with my capacity to wonder, then learning from Aristotle one time, i almost cried, I actually did: Man is made for happiness!! and almost nobody knows this, or cares to see why.
I devoured almost every book of philosophy i could get my hands on, i read about all those thinkers that in the story of mankind had wondered "why", and it injected in me such a passion for living my true human nature that there is no activity I enjoy as much as I do when I sit and think, and wonder...and is in this wondering that my mind feels conected to the all, to the inmanent and to the temporary...time ceases to be perceived and I just enjoy the instant in which I am, In which I AM. The rest does not belong to me, if I am death is not, and if death comes, either I am not or I will still be.
But anyways, answering more simply to your question: I can't tell wether in general depressed people wonder more than happy ones, sicne to find out what happy means we would have to recurr to many explanations that wouldn't fit the shoe properly. i think that wondering is an innate human capacity, but wether we all follow it to the last consequences that is somethign else, most people are content only with opinion or with what somebody else tell them what to think..Some of us, we like to give our intellect wings and ascend to the true purpose of its being: To think!
What do you think?
2006-10-02 17:46:14 · answer #2 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think in general happy people don't stop to ponder why. If one is depressed, everything in life is questioned. So the answer would be yes.
2006-10-02 16:34:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nahhh... happy people are still people. We all got problems, we all ask, "Why me?", "Why?", "Why now?", "WHY, WHY, WHY!!!" Typing WHY is really getting on my nerves now.
Asking why is good. If you use it appropriately, and don't ask stupid questions like, "Why does this happen to me?", only to breakdown. I'd suggest to kick butt that question! ;) For example, I sometimes ask myself, "Why is this happening to me?" Deja Vu? [hehe] I take a few seconds to swallow that thought, and my anti self-pity mode is turned on. I say to myself, "Please, milions are out there starving, malnutrition, crippled, paralysed..." and you get the point.
My answer still stands are NO! We all wonder why. Why do you think Albert Einstein came up with so many inventions, he asked WHY. We all ask WHY, and some just do something about it, rather than sit around and mope. Those are the people who get depressed.
Cheers!
2006-10-03 02:23:04 · answer #4 · answered by Peanut 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably. If you are down, you look at the bad more than the good and wondering why you feel bad or why you life is bad is probably something a depressed person does more than a regular person.
2006-10-02 16:31:56 · answer #5 · answered by Rawrrrr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I think that depressed people may be slightly more introspective than others... i mean if you serious sit down and think why about alot of things its pretty depressing..
actually if more people thought "why" more often we'd probably have a revolution.
2006-10-02 16:32:26 · answer #6 · answered by rachel o 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having been depressed myself, I can tell you that the most common things I wondered were: Why did I do that? Or Why didn't I do that? I kicked myself for things that happened recently and years ago, and even for things that weren't my fault. The only way out was the salvation of Christ, and even then I had to learn to forgive myself, even though I knew that God forgave me. I had to ask God to help me forgive myself, and then I was finally free.
2006-10-02 16:36:39 · answer #7 · answered by Teddie M 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depressed people do not necessarily ask why more than happy people. They do, however, tend to notice they are asking why and tend to not ask why not.
2006-10-02 16:40:06 · answer #8 · answered by elephanthrower 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depressed ppl i find, don't ask ''why'' more, cause that would seem they cared. When your depressed , you probably expect things to be **** any way, cause that's how you feel day to day.
2006-10-05 06:19:09 · answer #9 · answered by shithappenz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably wonder "why me?" more than happy people
2006-10-02 16:34:10 · answer #10 · answered by wendy k 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
im happy but still always wondered why about EVERYTHING..... again a quote.... an unexamined life is not worth living..... socrates
2006-10-03 13:23:23 · answer #11 · answered by mamzellle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋