Understanding happiness by focusing on your life in this world
Understanding happiness starts and ends within. To achieve and understand happiness, one must explore one’s self. The majority of people today make the mistake of imprisoning themselves in convention, theory, and doctrine. The self is not an entity that is described by the sciences, but rather an identity we are constantly creating and altering. Socrates has taught us, among other things, to interrogate received opinion with rational argument, to think for yourself, and to not blindly follow the doctrines of others. Plato teaches us to seek a metaphysical conception of reality into which we can place our own existence. I do not believe that means to seek enlightenment, but rather to define your “reality”.
In the world that we live in today, “society” plays a big role in everything. Morning television shows tell us what is cool, or hip, and they may even try to define happiness for us, all before we step out the door to go to work. This reeks of post-modernism. We are increasingly dominated by visual media that is constantly creating this disillusionment with the idea of absolute knowledge. There is no absolute knowledge, and the only society is one’s self. And the self is not a “thing” that must be known, as a “truth”, but rather a “project” that you must be. I also do not believe that this project is an individualistic project, but a project that manifests from the being of reality itself. Again, you must define your own reality.249
There exists many mediums in which people attempt to “create” happiness, such as religion, or wealth, or sexual experience. The problem with all of these is that an idea has evolved over time to produce the thought that we live in a society, as a group of beings. At this point, you would have to disenfranchise your individual being from this preconceived group before you could be free to explore your inner being. In doing this you would discover true happiness, happiness as it is to you. When you are under the influence of this invented populace that surrounds you, instead of encompassing your mind with your soul and only your soul, it becomes impossible to achieve an unbiased perception of your happiness. You eventually become diluted with what “society” accepts as happiness, and in turn you become a drone or robot, programmed to believe you are pursuing happiness when, in your reality, you are as far as you could possibly be from obtaining your happiness. I guess it could be described as soft despotism of the soul by the majority. The easiest solution would be avoidance, but if one didn’t avoid it, it could be possible to defeat “soft despotism of the soul”, but a stage of self realization, like a truly spiritual experience or an out of body experience, must occur before one could become aware that change is needed.
To understand happiness as it pertains to the individual’s life in this world, one must define happiness, one can not allow it to be defined for them by others because every individual happiness is completely different, like spiritual snowflakes. And defining happiness to the individual can only happen through continually defining and redefining that individual’s reality.
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