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What is happiness? Is it the condition of life to be always in this state? We feel a sense of abjection if we are not experiencing this condition in perpetuum. Only when we lose the essential tenets of life: health, love and freedom that we see the folly of this mode of thinking. The quest for happiness creates the most unhappiness in us. Hence, the imperative to live in the present to experience ourselves existing at any moment in time.
Be it a flower I see and smell, feel the breeze caress my face: observe ourself existing outside the sphere of our body. We should seek to better our condition but not be under the illusion that this path leads to enlightenment. Our culture perpetuates this myth; its very existence depends on it, we consume in the quest for happiness. We are promised that if we consume this or that product, it is the vehicle to obtain happiness. The irony is that we are consuming ourselves out of existence. Acknowledge the sadness and disappointment try to learn the best we can from these experiences and try to improve our responses to their reoccurrence, as surely they will.
Life is a trial because nature deems it so. If all was emollient and smooth, what would prepare us for the uncertainties: the curveball that nature throws at us? We were created from improbabilities, and thus we must be ready for the unexpected. We are accidents, life was an accident. We are, therefore, the…
