2007-04-04 03:31:22 · 19 answers · asked by Aquamarine 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Why can't you see the moon during the day?
Simply put, because it is only bright compared to the darkness of the night sky. Without that contrasted opposition, you would not be able to appreciate how bright the moon is.
Likewise.... how could you ever be happy if you knew no suffering? What would happiness even mean to you? There would be no improvement.... no comparison.... no change.
Without change the world becomes stagnant.... and without the interplay of opposing extremes, we have no way of knowing where we stand, who we are and what is going on around us.
2007-04-04 05:18:34 · answer #1 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, so I'm obsessed with chocolate, so I'll explain using a chocolate example.
Say you have unlimited access to eat as much chocolate as you want. You gorge yourself till your stomach is about to hurl. Still, you have unlimited access so the next day you repeat. Soon the original amount of chocolate you consume doesn't satisfy, but since you have unlimited amounts you keep consuming. Eventually you'll find an equilibrium where you'll eat and be satisfied day after day. However, this does come with the price of adding fat to your body.
So now you're in a dilemma, keep enjoying chocolate at your satisfaction level, or exchange for a better figure. This is mutually exclusive (meaning you get one or the other) decision. So, to be happy you have to give up one for the other. So, you decide a "Healthy" life without chocolate is what you want. Well, you have to suffer to break the habit, and then once you realize that you've told yourself "No" sucessfully, you'll find happiness in the maturity you've gained; not to mention your better figure and more active life style.
2007-04-04 12:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Happiness begins where suffering ends.
2007-04-04 10:36:12 · answer #3 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
how would you know what is happiness if you don't get to experience suffering.....more, in some part of life happiness is a process....let me ask you, would you be happy if you have a salary increase? of course, who doesn't....having a salary increase would make you happy but you don't get that happiness in an instant...you have to work a lot and do well in your job to get an increase........you suffer first before you get happy with your new salary increase.....happiness is a reward -- a very good karma.....
2007-04-04 14:01:35 · answer #4 · answered by ding87 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't have to; we choose to, because we think this is the norm. It is not the norm. To get through a hard time without the unneccessary suffering just hitch on a teeny tiny smile, smiles are the blasters of sadness.
2007-04-04 10:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by Laela (Layla) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you feel tension because of unhappiness. Then you search for a behavior to relax. This relaxation makes you happy. If you insist on the same behavior the marginal utility (happiness) decreases.
2007-04-04 12:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by asdand 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a give and take
you cant be happy all the time
you cant have it all at once
we need to have both at certain times
life would not be worth living if we couldnt suffer.
2007-04-04 10:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by Lindsey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suffering is essential for us to be able to appreciate that which makes us happy.
2007-04-04 10:35:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because you have to work for what you want in life! that also includes love! Peoples happiness is on many different levels though! what makes me happy might not be happiness to you!
2007-04-04 10:40:30 · answer #9 · answered by Kendra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we become "sick and tired" of being unhappy, we decide to become happy.
Happiness is a way of thinking not an event. Happiness is all in the mind just as unhappiness is.
2007-04-05 00:10:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋