Can one truly be happy alone?

Question

Why are you here?

Answer 1

To answer your question accurately and philosophically, we are always alone. We are products of our minds; and we can never really get into another's mind. How can another really know our suffering, our experiences? That is like asking a blind man to describe colour. One of healthy mind can never be happy alone; because of the way we are built\or evolved (darwinism or intelligent design, take your pick,) but that also depends on how to define alone. In this answer, I will consider it to be the typical human loneliness. Youee, we are a product of two opposites pulling against each other (duality.) You asked, "can one truly be happy alone?" i say no, because that is like "in without out", "up without down," or negative without positive. As an example, think of eating something or gravity. What goes up, must eventually come down. They cannot exist without each other, in fact, like the sun and the moon, they depend on each other, as opposite as they appear to be. Think about our body structure. Everything is in twos, ears, eyes, legs, arms, testicles & ovaries. "No man is an island." So thus; one can never be happy alone truly, because it like it missing the forward to the backward; one can never be complete. You asked "Why are you here?" well, I dont know everything, but i can tell you this; we are here to suffer and have pleasure at the same time. Pain is a great teacher, in fact, pain is the greatest teacher, and I wouldn't give it up for the world. Can you imagine a world without suffering? Can you imagine the sun without the rain? Same old, same old.... if I have learned anything in my life, is to embrace the pain, and pain i have embraced, and make it a part of you because the more you suffer, the more you will enjoy pleasure, real pleasure, i can guarantee, you will get eventually in your life, through one form or another. To conclude, to be alone, gender wise, one can never really be truly happy, because it is like missing a part of yourself, and it is why we are here... and if we were "full," why the **** would we even get out of bed? To experience, because i think most people would agree that they would rather feel pain then nothing at all. I previously stated that we are always alone, which is true, but the opposite is also true. We are always together with something, aren't we? Even if they don't understand us, because something is not nothing. And nothing, does it really exist? Isn't there always SOMETHING? like a petty atom molecule? Well, nothing, philosopically, doesn't exist, and that only makes the universe only that much more mind-boggling then it is, with its billions of stars, and infinite possibilities, and yeah, you can attempt to disprove my everything theory. OK. I am nothing, i am a compound of atoms, but things aren't like that. The thing according to duality, is, that i am nothing AND everything. Opposites are the same; does that sound so unbelieable? Think about positive and negative batteries. They wont even separate for a second. Do males and females ever not want each other companies? Opposites atrract.
EDUCATION: Journalism, General Arts and Science, Anthropology, Philosophy
MY RANT: Not that don't believe in God, which I do, which is the God of Duality, whatever that means, but I am talking about the mystical Jesus Christ, what am I supposed to do? Who are you, really? I am supposed to revere you, mystical person? I fail to understand the situation. What can I do to placate you, Jesus Christ? Listen to to Cross Movement? Like seriously, i might as well just get a Prince Albert piercing, and then sit down to take a piss, because my penis would be severely damaged due to metrosexuality, which their god, "Brad ******* Pitt," which is ALRIGHT, and only ALRIGHT, in Fight Club, but God, just keep me out of it! I can't even tell who are really homosexuals and metrosexuals anymore, even when I go downtown. Dark times indeed. Even ******* Star Trek, a great science-fiction show, is starting to become unfashionable.
Second RANT: No, not hopefully, I mean, what is writing for? To express yourself, correct? But these metrosexuals are overwhelming me. What the **** am I seriously, there are much better talented artists that worship the ******* "devil". Worshipping the "devil" is too easy, all you you gotta do is play rock music and put two fingers up.
MUSIC: OK, time is up. I gotta go listen to Soundgarden and Audioslave. I mean ,Jebus Christ (if that person even existed,) Chris Cornell and Tom Morello are gods by my standards. If Jebus existed, which he doesn't seem to be a very merciful god, or even knowledgeable, because all the Christians\Religious people can't even answer the most fundamental philosopical questions. Like where God came from>? Chicken or the egg?
Anyways, lady, Good luck with your inquiry. Technically, it's an enquiry, but who cares nowadays. You might as well call it a whatever, because I can't think of the proper word right now. If that's what you call it. OK, I realize the last few sentences didnt make sense, but I suppose, it's okay. I mean, "Jejus Christ", which does sound suspeciously Armenian, and I suppose, Armenians been through alot, just like like any other people whose grandmothers were raped by foreign invaders. Sounds alot like the South America, which were curiously the some of the first Christians in the civlized world, and thus; made it civilized for the first white people to do, just to look at the church and made Christanity popular before Constantine The Great enforced it around Rome in 300 AD, and the Armenian people, which were the victim of a Turkish Genocide, which my people were also victim to (native americans to spanairds), but not nearly as good\holy as the "Jebus Christ", supposedely, which our ancestors believed in this abused image to the point of enslavement, and medieval times.
Time for reason to sprout. I hope I didn't offend your God. And I don't mean to insult God, but when I am faced with the Islamic form of God, or any other fanatical image of God, I cannot help but argue, which they take as "heresy," I am comforable in the reason that people who ask these sort of questions ask real philosphical questions, as you did, aren't Christians because they are too busy thinking about real problem. And, what do you think? These islamic people want to make peace with me?
No, religion is a scourge.
The truth is hard to take,
do you agree?

Yeah... you'd think they'd let it go.
But no, they're serious *******.
Hope you got a good answer lady.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Be Happy Alone

Answer 4

Once you learn how to be Happy with yourself, being alone is happiness, Happiness is a state of mind. How long must one remain in the dark?, well, until one learns to see in the dark. Therefore being truly happy, is being in tune with your emotions. Why am I here? to enlighten you, to answer your doubts, to expand your horizons, to see if by answering your questions you can begin to ask better ones. Some day, somehow, someway, you will see what I mean, and if you are lucky, you will understand it too.

Answer 5

Good question. I think, to be with people to *escape* our loneliness is wrong, and to be alone, to *hide from society* is wrong. Whatever we choose, I think we should choose for healthy reasons.

I do feel we can certainly be happy alone but we are also built to have meaningful, sustaining, fulfilling relationships with people. Having good relationships in life is part of being mentally, emotionally and physically healthy. It's all inter-related.

Ofcourse, if one is alone and really completely happy and doesn't feel the desire to have company, then I believe that is completely fine too - to each his/her own. Everyone is made different - has different needs and comfort zones.

I believe living a balanced life is what is healthy. Being comfortable in our own skin and being by ourselves (as we get older, we gain points here), as well as having good social relationships (I feel, as we get older, the pool of friends becomes smaller, since we become more selective and learn who has really stood by us all this while).

Answer 6

depends, what do you mean by alone?

if you mean alone as in single. then yes you can be happy, since you still have your friends and family with you and there is much to do and lots of possibilities out there

but if you mean alone, as in someone deprived from society and the such, then i don't think you can be happy. man is a social being after all, man can only be happy by relating with others like him. :)

Answer 7

Of course, I am proof of it. Be it inside a society which makes acquiring food and gathering information easier, or on an island in the middle of nowhere with nobody else on it.

The desire for social interaction is not necessary to survive. You can live without it and it makes things a lot easier. It's not like you cannot deal with others anymore, you just don't feel the need to spend time with them.

Answer 8

yes we can be happy alone.

it is true that nobody is an island however it does not say that we can't be happy alone. happiness depends on the individual; what the individual views as their happiness depends on their experiences, desires, and character. so if we can define what we want, we can be happy alone and no one can take that from us.

Answer 9

It is difficult to even picture that a book can assist people to change their fates however } thousands of mens and women, individuals that they have actually benefitted in a big

Answer 10

Being 'alone' is an illusion....... but you can play along if you like - that's what free will is for.

We are all one - all that is.

Answer 11

Without anyone else conscious of me, would I truly exist?