All right. This question ought to be easy. What is our reason for living?
I'm not asking about some great "Meaning of Life", but about our personal reason for which we live.
So, what are we living for? Did our parents bear us and then we kind of got used to it?
Do we live just to survive? Do we live to raise our children? To pay bills? Just to have a pleasant weekend or spend time with our "significant other"?
What for?
I'd say that a good reason for living is to find Happiness. To be Happy and become even Happier. Wouldn't you agree?
If so, I'm afraid we've lost our way.
Nowadays, there are two major groups of people:
a) Those who actually struggle to survive, day by day.
and
b) Those who spend their days under pressure and anxiety to make money, to build careers, to "make ends meet", to "succeed".
The first kind are usually victims of war, famine, poverty or anything else that is an abomination to any society that calls itself "civilized".
The second kind are "victims of themselves" and generally the majority of us participating in this blog.
So, is this what we want? Is this what we should be doing with our lives?
I feel as if Happiness is on top of a mountain and we spend our lives trying to build a machine to get (faster and more easily) there, instead of just climbing.
We've turned the means into the goal itself and thus we've lost our purpose.
We are daily bombarded by "indices this" and "inflation that" and "shortage of the other" and I hear no-one wondering about the obvious:
"Is this Happiness? Is this the way to lead a life?"
Our lives are run by "profitability", "competitiveness" and "insecurity".
Is this the way to Happiness?
Everyone worries about the prosperity of numbers and no-one about the prosperity of the people.
I'd say it's time we re-established our focus.
Let's try this out:
Every day, when we wake up, let's ask ourselves:
"What will I do today that will make me Happy?"
And when we go to sleep:
"Did I make myself a Happy person today?"
No hope, unless it's action
I'm not asking about some great "Meaning of Life", but about our personal reason for which we live.
So, what are we living for? Did our parents bear us and then we kind of got used to it?
Do we live just to survive? Do we live to raise our children? To pay bills? Just to have a pleasant weekend or spend time with our "significant other"?
What for?
I'd say that a good reason for living is to find Happiness. To be Happy and become even Happier. Wouldn't you agree?
If so, I'm afraid we've lost our way.
Nowadays, there are two major groups of people:
a) Those who actually struggle to survive, day by day.
and
b) Those who spend their days under pressure and anxiety to make money, to build careers, to "make ends meet", to "succeed".
The first kind are usually victims of war, famine, poverty or anything else that is an abomination to any society that calls itself "civilized".
The second kind are "victims of themselves" and generally the majority of us participating in this blog.
So, is this what we want? Is this what we should be doing with our lives?
I feel as if Happiness is on top of a mountain and we spend our lives trying to build a machine to get (faster and more easily) there, instead of just climbing.
We've turned the means into the goal itself and thus we've lost our purpose.
We are daily bombarded by "indices this" and "inflation that" and "shortage of the other" and I hear no-one wondering about the obvious:
"Is this Happiness? Is this the way to lead a life?"
Our lives are run by "profitability", "competitiveness" and "insecurity".
Is this the way to Happiness?
Everyone worries about the prosperity of numbers and no-one about the prosperity of the people.
I'd say it's time we re-established our focus.
Let's try this out:
Every day, when we wake up, let's ask ourselves:
"What will I do today that will make me Happy?"
And when we go to sleep:
"Did I make myself a Happy person today?"
No hope, unless it's action
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