People say happiness comes from within, it might be true.
But let us look at other side of the coin also.
Imagine you win a lottery of 300
million dollar you will be super happy that moment, that day, next day,
next week, next month, and next year but after that you will probably be less
happy. It is because no matter what you get in life; your mind will always want to return to
state of being at rest or its original position. In essence it is similar to principle of
minimum energy.
It is therefore not
that easy to always be happy because there is something working actively
against it.It doesn't seem to be true for being sad though. You can be
sad throughout your life and never be able to come to original state.(Depression )
Another analogy we can take is, when an electron absorbs
photon, its energy level increases and electron jumps to higher orbit. But after some time
it would release that photon and go back to its original orbit. Similarly we get
excited temporarily but come back to our original state soon.
Again I could not
find a parallel for sadness.
So, to people who say you should always be happy. My reply –
Nah ..my default state is of melancholy and I think something or other would
always bring me there .
As usual, it seems less structured on paper than it did on my mind .But - meh
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It is matter of perception, I can look at my life as
Without any major deviations or unfortunate incidents/events, I might be able to afford things I like to eat, books that I want to read for quite some time ( exceptions being if I get diabetes or lose my eye or something ) without doing physical labor or necessarily having a very hard life. So all in all it doesn't seem a bad a life to lead
On the other hand, I sometimes have profound sadness that without any major deviations I would never amount to anything, I would be a lowly computer operator /engineer who would become obsolete after few years and would not have achieved anything in my life. I mean if someone asked me what was the greatest thing you ever did, I still might not be able to come up with anything . So it doesn't seem to be a very good life . Also, I can think I have had best of life already, eating whatever I want ( well not exactly coz am veg ) , drinking whatever I want, ordering pizza whenever I want . I think my life can only go downhill from here ..
So there you have it a good and not so good life to lead.
well last para applies for me too..i hve never dne anything tht cud b counted as the greatest thing...
ReplyDeletebtw all tht proton electron talk..my brain skipped it...:P
Don't you remember in chemistry we were taught that once an electron absorbs some energy it jumps to higher orbit, however after some time it releases the energy and comes back to it's original orbit.
ReplyDeletenooo dont remind me of those things..X(
ReplyDeleteWhat is you turn into a photon and you're default state changes?
ReplyDeleteWhat if come what may, forget happiness and sadness, your default state is that of peace, stability?
Of course no can can be happy always, that'd be boring! Same applies to sadness. But we can be objective enough to just accept things as they are, and move on. As for life not amounting to anything...hey, when you were a child, newborn, did you have the ambition to become Bill Gates? You didn't even know who he was. All you wanted was comfort and peace and to see everyone around in a similar state.
I feel life has become too institutionalized for us to actually 'live'. We just keep running and searching.
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