Happiness

With all the things that people chase and seek after in life, it seems that in the end it all boils down to one thing; people want to be happy.

This may seem like one of those very obvious things that people would hear and say “Well DUH!,” but it’s actually most people’s motives behind everything we all do. People have friends and family in order to belong and feel happy. People have job to make money (which they can use to buy things to try and make them happy) and so that they can attempt to be successful. People go to school or pursue knowledge in certain areas as a way to better themselves and make themselves happy. People go to church and seek after God or spirituality as a means to feel content and happy (and those who would say they don’t seek God for happiness, would they still seek God if they wouldn’t go to heaven? If God WOULDN’T give them eternal happiness in exchange for their devotion down here, how “devoted” to him would they be then?).

The thing that strikes me as kind of funny though is that nothing makes a person happy forever. Even the biggest sources of happiness in a person’s life eventually loose some or all of the magical power they hold in order to bring happiness. Happiness is something that has to be maintained, just like a building, or eventually it will wear down with time.

I’ll admit that as much as I hate to be, I am human and part of me feels this primal, internal drive to seek out happiness. Yet if I take off the goggles of humanity, I have to wonder just why it is that people seek out happiness.

If the things that make people “happy” are constantly growing old, I have to wonder what causes them to do that. Can it be that nothing truly satisfies and we only attempt to have something that can never really be? Or do all these things that make us “happy” get worn down and eroded by all the crap in the world?

Personally I think it is a combination of both of those.

I think that as much as we want things to keep us satisfied and happy, nothing really does. All that things and people do is keep us pacified for a while until we go looking for something else.

I also think that the world isn’t quite the wonderful place and life isn’t the blissful miracle as many would say. I think people try and try to bend over backwards to make the “good” things in life outnumber and outweigh the “bad” things. But I think in reality, their effort is futile because the bad things are much more plentiful than the good.

What is it in human nature that makes us try to be happy anyways? I don’t know, but I think it’s kind of stupid.

As far as benefits go, I can’t think of too many benefits to trying to be happy. Sure, like doesn’t seem to suck as much when you’re happy, but that’s only how it SEEMS. Happiness is an attitude and does very little to change circumstances or surroundings.

I think happiness is just something people try to use as a tool to block all the crap in life from their sight. Happiness is a pacifier. Happiness is over-rated (as are most things).

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“You’re the fuel to the fire

You’re the weapons of war

You’re the irony of justice

And the Father of law

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Been waiting a while to meet You

For the chance to shake Your hand

To give you thanks for all the suffering You command

When all is over and we return to dust

Who will be my Judge?

And which one do I trust?”- Stone Temple Pilots