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Trying to come up with some static perfect state in which I would be happiest has been an incredibly slippery problem for me. Even agency itself can become exha
by porknubbins 5y ago
Trying to come up with some static perfect state in which I would be happiest has been an incredibly slippery problem for me. Even agency itself can become exhausting as anyone who has worked for themselves and gone back to the (temporary) relief of a manager assigning a fixed set of tasks will come to realize. Even if I had endless wealth and time which would solve 90% of my problems I would still have to struggle to find new meaningful challenges. This is not to despair of ever finding happiness just to remind myself its (for me, I don’t want to project my phsychology on the whole world) more a process and to enjoy the present with the knowledge that “this too shall pass”.
- bredren 5y agoReading this, there seems to be an assumption that your perceived purpose is to achieve happiness. There is a school of thought that one’s purpose is not to do anything but live. Where life contains both periods of happiness and despair. That both are important, though there are an infinite set of emotional positions to experience and that all of them are valuable, even if some are unsettling or uncomfortable. I used to have preconceptions of not just achieving happiness as a purpose but which things specifically I needed to accomplish to be happy. Several years ago a friend introduced me to philosophy offered by the mystic Sadguru. Some of his work has had great influence on me. You may appreciate some of what he has to say: https://youtu.be/vQ7ZvPghdy8 https://youtu.be/vQ7ZvPghdy8