Why not just try to be happy ? Why worry about the future or about duty or about what its's all for? Why not just try to enjoy your life? Please! Respond this statement with either in the affermative sense or nagetive sense.
Some points to consider
Everything that we value, our hopes, acheivements and happiness dissapear with death
"All our pleasures and joys dissappears in our hands, and we afterwards ask astonished where they have gone."
According to Schopenhauer, hapiness is unobtainble for the vast majority of mankind. Enverthing in file shows that earthly happiness is destined to be frustrated or recognized as illusion. People either fail to achieve the ends they are striving for or else they do acieve them only to find them grossly disappointing.
Death is better than life
Life is not worthliving because anything does not last long and perisheth in death
The philosophical view that life is not worth living, that life is futile; we are doomed to unhappiness
2007-05-23 18:44:06 · 8 answers · asked by heaven137000 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are also some points to consider
Life.....Continual becoming without being
Life.....Continual desire without satisfaction
Life ....The contunual frustration of striving
Life.....everything perishes, including us,eventually
2007-05-23 18:47:33 · update #1
nice question...
:)
we should live in the present as we can act in the present, its the time meant for us, the past and the future depends on the present. We all know this deep inside, but in the process of correcting the mistakes in the past, and establishing a better future, we forget that we also live for happiness and enjoyment. that is also one of our duties.
"Everything that we value, our hopes, acheivements and happiness dissapear with death"
i agree here, but death dissolves our body, but not our footprints...i mean...our hopes, our achievements and source of happiness stays behind as an example for our loved ones and as a memory.
death and life cannot be compared. Life and death are just two ends...between which we travel.
life is worth-living...because you can "outlive" death by living a satisfactory life.
:)
2007-05-23 20:54:00 · answer #1 · answered by *~Hope~* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schopenhauer was probably right. What he meant is that happiness is a RESULT. It is an outcome. You can't just make yourself happy - and because many people cannot understand this, it is out of reach for them.
So - how do we get the result. that is, how can you be happy?
Again, the answer is that there is no such thing as continual happiness. There are flashes of pure joy that can be felt from time to time, but even though there is complete and constant misery, the opposite (complete and constant joy) does not exist.
It is possible to feel moderately content for a long time, of course. This comes from a sense of satisfaction or success. Success brings happiness in bursts, sometimes.
Doing things the right way, helping people, achieving certain levels... these are all things that bring about a shot of happiness. But some ppeople feel great and happy when they are alone, or when they make a mistake, because they feel they have learnt something.
It has never been proven that death is better than life to those who are dead. It may only seem so to the ones that are left behind.
Life is worth living for many more reasons than enjoying or wishing for things that last. Everything passes, even the good bits. That's not what life is all about - life is about change and accepting it. (I am not talking about the MEANING of life - it means different things to different people). Life is about differences and accepting them.
No - everything does not disappear with death - we leave a legacy of our actions and deeds behind. The best thing to leave is the respect of your children. It is very hard to get. But we leave our footprint behind in the form of things we write, things we say - the impressions we make on people. Things we teach to others live forever in the effect they have. Generations of effect.
Yes, pleasures and joys disappear, very quickly. They are replaced with others. It would be desperately boring if we were to be in the same state of joy about the same thing all the time.
Futility is not bad! It is a fact of life and death. Life is futile and so is death - get used to it. What's important is that you try to make what comes in between meaningful for yourself and not harmful to others. Teach someone how to do something - is that futile? Perhaps, but it has a resounding effect.
Futility has a bad name, but it's not bad really. Is it futile to eat if you are going to have to do it all over again in three hours? Is sleep futile if you are going to need it again tomorrow night? Is love futile if you find the relationship does not work after all? Futility has its use, just like anything else.
Try to gain a practical view of life - everything has some sort of use! If it is useless to you, it may prove so to others, or not! Try things - enjoy diversity, differences.
I can guarantee you only one thing: change. Things that are alive will continue to change.
Good luck
2007-05-23 19:12:00 · answer #2 · answered by elmina 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was all awesome....that was all just flat out awesome ......but.....to feel....happyness, sadness, dissapointment....to feel is beautiful....and without sadness, would there be happiness?Without good, would there be evil?Everything is a balance,you cant have one without the other....and if ones life is filled with so much distain, that they would choose death over,something so precious and so beautiful ......life.....your life...., your spirit,and your soul in which your body holds, why not just end it?Is it not your life?Do you not have free will?One would be foolish to choose death over their beautiful life that God has provided just because of their own dissapointment.How selfish and weak. If there were no life, there would be no death.If there were no death, there would be no life.One cant be without the other......when you say that "we" are doomed to unhappiness, speak only for yourself.Death is not better than life, death IS life.Death is a part of life....And, if life is not worth living because anything does not last long and perisheth in DEATH, how is death any better than life?
2007-05-23 18:54:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question... Star!!
I agree totally with the idea that all we need to do is to try to be happy without worrying about the future, responsibility or purpose. If one can do this, it would indeed be the best way to lead life to its destined end of death.
But none of us can do that quite so well... reason is our ego... it assumes responsibility and purpose.... hence demands control of future. Unless we can totally eliminate our ego, it is not possible to float happily without a purpose and sense of duty... in order to float like that, we must have the capability to gladly accept anything and everything that happens.
What we can of course do is to continually be conscious of how our ego is driving us.... and keep reminding ourselves how small and minuscule we are in the context of this huge universe and its vast time frame. This will help us keep our ego at a reasonably low level to be able to accept most of what happens... it will obviously lead us to handling events as they come instead of planning for them, anticipating their character and getting fruitlessly either overjoyed or dejected based on the outcome. In other words, we can live reasonably happily till death... in fact death would look like just another event that we have to accept when it comes.
Not easy by any means... our ego is extremely powerful and highly incorrigible!!!
2007-05-23 20:08:07 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are human and from god we are orderd to do the work and give some result and if we do some thing than we get possitive and nagative. It's our nature and we have mind so we feel the joy and sorrow so be practical when you feel joy think out of body and feel joyness and think about sorrow and when you in trouble once again go to the out of body and search the joyness you will get more powerfull result.
We cann't leave the life from fear of death
2007-05-23 18:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by saga 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is height of pessimism . Only when you attained the state of life and have experienced something called happiness, you can actually discern between the different degrees it .
If you are content , you are happy. Do you have a choice of not living your life . I don't mean to advocate self induced termination of life . Go ahead and enjoy. Philosopher sometimes earn their day 's wages making life seem difficult for us
2007-05-23 19:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by Prince Prem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all down to human nature..we have crawled up from the mire in order to ask and question why? Life is simple..you are born and you will die..the in-between is made complicated by your inherent curiousity to ask and question...Why? It is but a mote in God's eye...Does he/she wear glasses?Where do the motes go?What is a mote?A mere triffle I hear you say? I say..Nay,Sir/Madam.Life is simple..its we who make complicated.
2007-05-23 19:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by kit walker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hapiness is a state of mind but not the destination....... remember ur past, think about the future but stay in present... present is a gift that why it is present........... u cant speculate about ur next moment .. so live every moment of life,,,,,,,,at the same time life is a gift enjoy it......
2007-05-23 19:01:49 · answer #8 · answered by all a 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋