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No! No! No! Happiness requires no thought of the future and so death is an irrelevance. Must live only in the present.
Happiness is understranding the human condition and accepting that we all will die one day.
Life never turned out the way I planned it.
No! No! No! Happiness requires no thought of the future and so death is an irrelevance. Must live only in the present.
It seems the richer we get the more we want, We are only then happy when we think of buying a new toy? Once we own this, then the drive is on to buy the next.
Cheers
I've heard & have experienced that people going through hardship together usually are at their happiest. Helping each other to get through adversity can be uplifting.
It seems the richer we get the more we want, We are only then happy when we think of buying a new toy? Once we own this, then the drive is on to buy the next.
So maybe noirua, your onto something. By thinking about the present, we are content with our lot, rather than looking further afield & being depressed about something we are not.
Cheers
The secret of happiness is living in the present without need for a future.
Lots of warm fuzzy feelgood stuff on this thread. I'd just question how realistic either of these two statements are?Want nothing.
True. During the blitz in London the suicide rate fell markedly.I've heard & have experienced that people going through hardship together usually are at their happiest. Helping each other to get through adversity can be uplifting.
This might be the case for some but by no means all. Many people, once they have enough to provide for their own needs, will give money away rather than waste it on superfluous trinkets.It seems the richer we get the more we want, We are only then happy when we think of buying a new toy? Once we own this, then the drive is on to buy the next.
Perhaps, but there's nothing wrong with healthy aspiration.So maybe noirua, your onto something. By thinking about the present, we are content with our lot, rather than looking further afield & being depressed about something we are not.
And remembering to leave a Will so that the government doesn't get all we have worked for!Happiness is understranding the human condition and accepting that we all will die one day.
True. During the blitz in London the suicide rate fell markedly.
An extension of this philosophy can be as simple as more of us making a voluntary contribution to our communities.
True. During the blitz in London the suicide rate fell markedly.
An extension of this philosophy can be as simple as more of us making a voluntary contribution to our communities.
What makes you think that?I believe there was a blitz in Coventry as well. Some people stayed in their houses and hoped Hitler would get them - maybe.
I don't see your point.Air raid shelters, Underground/Metro or I think Anderson shelters. People were bombed in Darwin as well by the Japanese, not to forget.
What makes you think that?
I don't see your point.
What I was reinforcing, in keeping with the discussion, was the idea that when people are striving towards the common good, there is a reduction in individual sense of misery.
For a recent, close to home example, consider the Victorian bush fires where people focused as much on helping their neighbours as on their own losses.
I can't see the connection with such an hypothesis and a description of air raid shelters. Neither do I get the connection with your earlier suggestion that the only real happiness exists in the present moment.
Really? Say I have just had an accident, am now quadriplegic, absolutely dependent, my family don't want to know me because I'm no longer a breadwinner, are you seriously suggesting I should be happy about that?Happiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want.
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