If you have everything you want by the age of 18 what's your secret?! LOL Seriously, Really?
I don't think HAVING things does lead to lasting long term happiness. Having things causes a momentary blip of happiness and euphoria, but then you go back to how you were before.
Happiness doesn't come from having things, it has to come from within. When you have happiness from possessions and things, you must then live in a constant state of panic, fear and anxiety about what you will do IF you end up losing it all?
I think mankind also moves the goal post!! When you get what you set out to have, you then move the goal post further out so you have something else to go for... and so it goes on and on.
True lasting happiness comes from withing, from self esteem, contentment, acceptance, adaptability, coping skills and resilience.
2007-12-15 22:21:15
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answered by Anonymous
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The question is, do you desire what you really want and need? If your life has become limited, if you've become cut off from who you really are, then your life is limited to your own ego. You are cut off from the source of your own energy, life's energy--you are cut off from love. Then you feel empty inside and are constantly seeking to fill this emptiness with things, with security, power and pleasure. So your desires are limited to these things, and you can never feel satisfied no matter how many of them you fulfill, because they aren't what you really want or need. The satisfaction lasts only a very short time. Furthermore, your desires are always bringing you into conflict with other people, because they are always satisfied at someone else's expense. But if you are grounded in your real self, then you have a constant source of energy in love. You feel a basic sense of satisfaction in loving and being loved even as you create and fulfill desires. You are coninually growing, and your desires grow too. And since you have a lot of room for other people in your life, and since you identify yourself with many more people than your individual self, the well-being of others is included in the scope of your desires. So your desires are life-supporting. And this is enormously satisfying.
2007-12-15 23:20:37
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answered by yet-knish! 7
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Its too hard to say we are satisfied just u got pleasure to you have but life dosent end still because it must go on desireness never end and one more thing if you are not desire to do the such new thngs and you say you are satisfied than dear you should do something for others they reallly need help of as such you people.And the moment could give a new craze to do work because life not still over it means your birth purpose is still not over the god gives you life to do something for others or may be something else for your self...............
for kind information i must tell you the life we live is durable for ourself ,but we ignore that and actually the life is to learn and to give others so suffer the world and then think you really not desire to do anything in this life really..........
Their is alot to do for me because i am satisfied but somebody is still searching for life..............
2007-12-16 16:08:32
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answered by karan 3
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The enlightenment postulated that there is a such thing as the optimal situation, that no matter the combination of things that it is the best combination. That is where optimism comes from, is the grass always greener? Sure, but that is what makes us all human.
2007-12-15 22:04:07
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answered by Orion Quest 6
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The underlying problem is that our human nature demands that our lives be worth living. It is a serious demand on us as the philosopher and writer, Albert Camus points out:
"There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that."
Most of us try to find our worth through the eyes of others in the form of praise or imagined praise. This drives us to keep doing things to earn our worth. It is not "what have you done?", but "what have you done lately?"
When we were children, we never worried about worth because we had worth merely by being loved by our parents. Love grants worth that we don't have to earn.
It is the Christian idea that we have worth simply by being sons and daughters of our Creator who loves us and want us to love Him.
2007-12-15 21:44:13
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answered by Matthew T 7
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2016-10-11 09:40:15
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answered by ? 4
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