2007-10-21 07:04:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Maybe because they are english
2007-10-21 07:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by anthony j 3 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Well first of all everyones "total happiness" is different. Some people need a lot more to make them completely happy.
But I think the main reason is that our perceptions of ourselves are screwed up. To be totally happy you definately have to be happy with your self, but its hard to do that since our perceptions of ourselves are influenced by lots of different media imges of what people should be like. Its hard to find the optimum you when most people are chasing an idea of themselves that isn't actually anything to do with them.
Another side is that I don't think anyone should achieve total happiness, since in doing so we have nothing to live for or achieve anymore. So even though its the ideal thing, its much better if its an unachievible ideal rather than something we can actually capture.
2007-10-21 07:25:55 · answer #2 · answered by scyther_maverick 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on what YOU term as total happiness.
Lots of people have a lot of what they want, but you know the old saying 'whatever you have you always want more' in other words in feeling that way, you think you arent happy,
I am happy. Not totally because Id maybe like a little more money around me but then I have to ask myself, what do i need that money for, what could that money get me that i dont already have? Well, it could pay a few bills for me. They are not my bills for luxuries, they are for everyday bills like taxes and things the government FORCE us to pay...
So I may be totally happy if the government we have stopped making us pay ridiculous ammounts for taxes and the likes, iof they stopped trying to wreck our lives. Im not a smoker or a drinker, but I have a little while ago been 'priced out' of keeping a car legally on the road.
Now theyve not long finished with the smokers, and now theyve started on the drinkers. So it looks as if pretty soon, any of what the majority would call enjoyment, will surely be out of reach....
So I guess the way to 'become' totally happy, is to cut down your idea of what happinness is all about, lower standards of what you expect from life, and then a few more of us may just be able to climb up there / get up there with the DETERMINED TO GET 'totally happy brigade'!!
2007-10-21 07:37:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Total happiness/satisfaction is nothing else than an illusion in the total chaos. Human beings cannot achieve it.
As the moon retains her nature, though darkness spreads itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remains perfect even in the bosom of a fool.
Akhenaton
c. 1385-c. 1355 BCE, Khemetic (Egyptian) Pharoah
– Happiness is only an illusory of the darkness, while the soul remains willing (happy) forever.
2007-10-21 08:11:06 · answer #4 · answered by jbaudlet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Total happiness is a goal; some goals cannot be obtained. If you were to achieve total happiness then you would have nothing more to aim for.
2007-10-21 07:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by Schittzu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing lasts forever. Some things, though, drag on for an awfully long time. We assume they will never change. The moment we adopt this attitude, we lose some of our ability to make a difference. That's fine if we are happy with things as they are. But if we really would like to have a different experience, we must never decide that it isn't possible. Complacency now puts you in danger of missing an amazing opportunity. But if you reach out to grab it, it will fall right into your hands.
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2007-10-23 09:43:33 · answer #6 · answered by Oh My God! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they have not learnt lessons to help them appreciate and recognise real happiness and are not sure on what they want in life so do not have goals they want to reach and achieve. Everyone can be happy!
2007-10-21 07:10:17 · answer #7 · answered by . 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not sure but I think it's because they have a different view (or unachievable) on what happiness means. Some people think that they will be happy if they get this or that or if this or that happens. I have discovered that it is not so much what you find on the outside of yourself.
2007-10-21 07:10:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They cannot achieve contentment because they are so self absorbed. Each second you are thinking about yourself you are losing the experience of the entire Universe.
2007-10-21 23:09:25 · answer #9 · answered by los 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that they don't know how to understand what it is like to be content. Everything seems to always have to be "extreme". Everything has to be over the top. Also I think people tend to dwell on the negative aspects of life which usually will always be there. That is what I find what rings me down.
2007-10-21 07:15:44 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Ish 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Was it nixon who said "You have to walk in the valley to see how high the mountain is
Total happiness does not exist: it`s all relative
2007-10-23 08:42:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋