Is life a continuous wheel of suffering?
When is it that a person can feel real immensity of joy? That is what we all are striving for, feeling happiness, joy and euphoria!?!
Lets say that someone has 'the perfect life', a good carrier, wonderful partner, all the love they can handle, food, warmth, material things to simply survive in the world and etc.
Is this person genuinely happy?
My thought is that a human being is never satisfied nor happy with Life. She always wants more and more.
The will/the wanting. Is the source of what drives people forward, always wanting more, which leads to dissatisfaction.
It is in the nature of the will that it can never be satisfied and always blindly must grope for satisfaction.
The wanting basically never stops, the human being wants more from her work, her love, her partner, society and mother nature...
Basically the humans essence is The Will... ?!?!?
I believe that the only escape a person can have from their will is through art; painting, music, dancing and etc
My personal escape is through music (sometimes dancing). When you are in the rhapsody of music you can disconnect and in a way turn off the button of all your wanting.
I could've said love, knowing that I am / was a sucker for love, but recently I realized that you always want more and more from love. It could be because of the pleasure of being loved or loving someone or even the pleasure of sex, that brings a certain kind of satisfaction which lies in the human nature. Through love, you constantly want to feel a certain high, you want to feel that unexplainable extraordinary feeling all the time and once you have tasted the fine flavor of love, its never enough. We drive ourself crazy to get more from another human being for introducing that deep feeling we can't give ourselves. So I don't think love is the answer to happiness, it's just a comfortableness which could make life a bit easier or worse.
That's why I exclude love from this topic.
I guess existence is based on the present, which constantly disappears. Because life is a constant change which no one, no thing nor no time can stop. That is why this constant change is the reason for not feeling tranquillity and happiness throughout life.
I have both read and talked to different types of people about this subject, as a conclusion they all say:
"People can't feel the real joy of life just by breathing, the only time you feel 'the joy' we all are searching for is through intoxication to feel a high by injecting something into the body we own. It could be everything from alcohol to different types of drugs. Only then you will feel the joy, the euphoric and happy feeling we are searching for by existing and living. "
Why is that?
I wish I could answer that question but unfortunately I can't.
For now I just have to continue to wonder until life or my personal experiences maybe will give me some answers... or not.
Ending this post with a little quote from Schopenhauer (even if I don't agree with all his philosophy) ;
"Happiness in the present, yet no man has known - if not as drunk"
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