To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle

Saturday, January 29, 2022
 

What sort of people are best wired to be happy in life? I'm not sure what it even means to be perpetually happy but I wonder if people who simply take what they get and go along with it tend to be happier? People who are not worried about identity or potential or meaning or justice but just live life because life is about living or something like that—which I obviously know nothing about—are perhaps better off? Even while writing this I draw a blank on what such a state means. If I see injustice but don't bat an eyelid or if I know I deserve something better but don't work towards it or if I just play the role society has ordained for me instead of finding my own role... how does that count for happiness? What is life outside of these strifes and struggles be it for identity or meaning or movement towards something or anything that I determine? What is happiness constituted by is a mystery to me... maybe I am not wired to find joy without substance. I mean I can get pleasure out of looking at nature or hearing a piece of music of course but those too inhere in my capacity to feel something which also mean being hurt or offended or saddened by the not so beautiful things I encounter. I don't understand happiness in a vacuum or in turning one’s face away from disharmonious conditions...