And soon the sun went beyond and all that was left to remind her of that day was the darkness that followed with her longing for the warmth of the sunlight. And the will to light her way out of the black night to see it shine again.
To live in bliss is to live ignorant and stagnated. Perfect happiness is only glimpsed or felt every once in a while then it vanishes as quickly as it comes but effortlessly. And that is how it is and always will be. We should know better than to challenge it but be aware that our search for happiness is our strongest motivator.
I say happiness is the means but contentment is always the ends. Gibberish? Not if you look at it from my point of view but very few people would agree I even make sense. That perpetual state of happiness is a big glorious lie. We do everything to keep ourselves happy and strive to remain in that state for as long as we think we can but in the end it is all a matter of being satisfied and content. So our pursuit of happiness too was in itself a façade. Happiness is only a wee-bit over-rated. Contentment – that is the real stuff. And only a few open their eyes wide enough to see that it is always within their grasp but only for their pursuit of happiness. And before you get to know contentment, you have to know what you really want.
Step up and accept that the times you remember well and moments which made you a bigger person are the ones when you were at your lowest and how you got out of it.
(Roy M. Goodman, my thoughts, exactly!)
I make little sense most times. I don't mind it. ^_^
This is the most honest and sensibly intelligent post I've read in a really long time. Believe it, cos' my last post was something on the contrary.
ReplyDeleteThe Title caught, no, ripped my eye off its sockets, and the content was even better. Kudos.
Happiness and Contentment conflicts, without the pursuit of happiness, one can never really be content, and without contentment, one can never really be happy, and neither lasts forever.
Damn, Blackestred got here before I did. The title- absolutely intriguing and something that I have often thought about with regard to Utopia. To repeat what I said in Black's post, I dont think perpetual happiness is possible, nor is it desirable. Maybe it is possible in Heaven, but here on earth, if all our wants are met and there are no more mountains to climb, we would be a stagnant lot, bored out of our skulls, and that would breed malcontent.
ReplyDeleteGood read