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confused silence.
mum: why are you so quiet now? o.o
I won't even begin to try and comprehend that. Woah THIS AUTOSAVES! How cool!:D
(you don't have to tell me I have a short attention span.)
I was feeling quiet intellectual and I was hoping to utilize that on this..thing..:S But of course, that was before bogus about 'cookies' and 'blogger' popped.
There's a famous Greek philosophiser named Epicurus. He believed that if you really wanted to be happy, you had to have three things;
- Friends.
- Freedom
- Thought
I learnt that in society and culture on Friday, so it's not a totally useless subject.
Friends. Friends, friends FRIENDS. Who are your friends? Do you trust your friends? What is a friend? Do you believe your better off alone, as I sometimes do? Do you, in your deepest hearts of hearts, believe your friends are real?
Sometimes I think, because of high school, people with similar interests band together. Safety in numbers, you could call it. So when we get thrown together and delve deeper within ourselves, are they friends? Sometimes I think I have no friends (laugh if you may), but I think I only have 'friends' because of how circumstances are. If I hadn't come to this school in 08', I seriously doubt I'd have the 'friends' I do now. See, circumstances. Don't get me wrong, my friends are great, they are really are (: But I'm questioning the basic fundamentals of friendship, if it really exists.
HAHA FOOD FOR THOUGHT~ Epicurus also said we need to escape materialism, and we should do this with friends.
To some extent, we use our friends. Don't deny it, no one wants to be the 'loser' or the loner in the school. Everyone wants to have friends. Like everyone wants tomorrow's new technology. Friends make us feel good, but maybe only in the sense that nobody can attack us for being a loner by having a group. Questions questions questions.
It's like a pack of wolves. Wolves travel in packs. (shocking tautology I'M SORRY.) Why?
Because they don't want to feel threatened and to protect themselves and each other. That's why. Note: Maybe that's why the bitchiest groups in school are often the most biggest? So to escape materialism in the world, if we take friends with us, we're clutching at straws. Epicurus, why did your friends make you feel good? Why did you suggest that we should never eat alone? I'm sorry, but social deprivation doesn't concern me.
Sorry Epicurus, but I believe happiness comes within ourselves. Yes there is death in the world, yes there is cruelty, sickness and unfairness in the world. I know that. Bla bla, but if I say to myself
I am happy and I am content
Then I am. No matter if I'm jailed, or in the country side running free. I am happy and I am content. I say it, I belive it, I feel it. Precisely in that order.
Freedom. Some people believe you need to escape your physical surroundings to be free. I'm sorry but you are so fucking materialistic if you think that. No you don't, okay? You sit in a quiet corner and you meditate. Do as the Buddhists do, they got it right. Doesn't matter where you are, if you focus and forget about the insignificant, then you have achieved freedom. It doesn't matter your parents are crazily strict (like mine), I am free. No one if restricting my thoughts. No one has placed a mental clamp over my brain. I am breathing. I am living. I am thinking. (:
SOO thought, huh? This is thought. Keeping it in my brain is thought. I'm so content just letting it out. This whole blog is about thought. (:
So if you read this, keep what I've offered as an opinion, in mind. Maybe in due course they'll change...maybe I'm very immature at the moment. But this is how I view the world and sense now.
BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE:D:D
For the past 40 years or so, 1st world countries have a developed political philosophy policy of self-esteem building. Also known as the 'Everyone's a winner' idealist perspective, where kids are molly-cuddled for the ego of the parents and society.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with this is that when you don't let a child experience failure, they find themselves unable to tolerate it in the real world when they reach their 20s. Furthermore, its a shit ideology. Studies have shown that boosting self-esteem doesn't improve anything, it doesn't even decrease alcohol consumption nor does it decrease acts of violence. Hell, the policy encourages violence - violent people don't have low self-esteem, a sociopath has high self-esteem, because they think they're better than others.
Now, the point of that rant is that you shouldn't source your information just from what school tells you.
Epicurus was indeed a great philosopher of his time (perhaps most renowned for his problem of evil, which atheists like to cite), but there is fresher and more recent thought available.
The German philosopher Schopenhauer, one of the great pessimists of his time—and perhaps even today—states that there are two “poles” of human suffering. The first is need. We are constantly desiring something new to excite or please us no matter what the circumstances, a need that frequently tears us apart with its violent force. The second pole is boredom, a state of intense void and interest. Schopenhauer points out that we constantly go from need to boredom. We spend days, weeks, years, lives trying to get what we need, but frequently find that once we have that thing we’ve sought after for so long we have become bored of it. We then need to find something else to interest us, constantly hopping from one exciting thing from another like a hungry child following a trail of breadcrumbs to a ginger bread house--the witch and her warm oven inside representing our inevitable deaths.
Do you see the point I'm trying to make here? Perhaps happiness just isn't achievable. Sure, happiness is key to the meaning of life, and it is something we all desire, but we need to suffer to get it and once we get it we quickly lose it.
Moving on, you say 'social deprivation doesn't concern me.'. I would dispute this claim. You'd have to live a life such as I have, but I can tell you that indifference is much worse than hate. Hate is a form of care, like love, but apathy removes all value you have, and value is something we aim towards having. Humans are also sociable creatures, its a biological trait.
Your next paragraph surprised me, because it is currently perfectly valid. Going back to Schopenhauer, he suggests an attitude tuned to the present instead of the unchangeable past or the nebulous future. He advises us to put aside our wants and wills and live for what we have right now at this very instant. The past cannot be changed and the future cannot be predicted, so any degree of worry about them is a waste of time and energy.
I think the main point you are trying to address is, what is our meaning in life? In your writing, you question the world around you and why we must be conformist, challenge societal ideologies for a true sense of meaning.
You'll find that once you delve into the depths of philosophy, the meaning of life is not so simple as just achieving happiness, and it is subjective to each individual. I can't start on what I think is the meaning of life, my theses are like a dozen pages in length usually.
Apologies for the rant, but I couldn't resist having done much personal study in the areas of philosophy & psychology myself.