Persoot of Happyness?
Posted 01-29-2018 at 07:47 AM by Blondebaerde
The ...pursuit...of....happiness...is a phrase we hear about. Maslow's Heriarchy might call it "self actualization," which leads to happiness, or is happiness itself.
Thinking yesterday, I fell into an amusing loop:
"I am content. Living how I do, at this time in history, in these specifics, seems to be making me happy. I'm happy to be here, and get up with a bounce every day!
Loop 1: "...but what if that is delusional? Can one be happy in a Concentration Camp? Life is far from that, thank goodness, but I can count many things that "could be better." So, shouldn't those things be at that "better" state before I am "happy:?
Doubt Outcome: "...Hmm: maybe I'm a lunatic, imagining clarity and happiness after all!"
One might also call that a "worry cycle," though I don't obsess about that which can go wrong. I'm aware all that can, actually, and sometimes the bad does come to pass.
The above is mostly a bunch of Bah Humbug: I'm Upper Middle Class in a society that some say is busily, steadily falling to pieces. We are are the High Priests to the Executives, the servitors of the Oligarchs, the Top 10 percent. I'll probably never be the two percent, much less the tenth of one percent. And I'm OK with that, they have me sufficiently brainwashed to not worry much on that.
Per a wealth calculator, globally, I'm top .75 percentile. I know nothing of deprivation, degredation, and the so-called default condition of mankind.
But I do ponder Happyness (chuckle).
Thinking yesterday, I fell into an amusing loop:
"I am content. Living how I do, at this time in history, in these specifics, seems to be making me happy. I'm happy to be here, and get up with a bounce every day!
Loop 1: "...but what if that is delusional? Can one be happy in a Concentration Camp? Life is far from that, thank goodness, but I can count many things that "could be better." So, shouldn't those things be at that "better" state before I am "happy:?
Doubt Outcome: "...Hmm: maybe I'm a lunatic, imagining clarity and happiness after all!"
One might also call that a "worry cycle," though I don't obsess about that which can go wrong. I'm aware all that can, actually, and sometimes the bad does come to pass.
The above is mostly a bunch of Bah Humbug: I'm Upper Middle Class in a society that some say is busily, steadily falling to pieces. We are are the High Priests to the Executives, the servitors of the Oligarchs, the Top 10 percent. I'll probably never be the two percent, much less the tenth of one percent. And I'm OK with that, they have me sufficiently brainwashed to not worry much on that.
Per a wealth calculator, globally, I'm top .75 percentile. I know nothing of deprivation, degredation, and the so-called default condition of mankind.
But I do ponder Happyness (chuckle).
