Warning: I spent a few hours with a friend last night and we stireed up quite a conversaton about life. Tamara emailed me this morning and I replied. This is quite heavy duty stuff about the depths of an organized life. You are warned.
Organize Your Life For Genuine Happiness
Tamara said: I’m waiting for you to come up with the answer to the question that I posed yesterday about why people who are happy disgust you!
I replied:
The answer is this
they are not happy by my standard of juding happiness.
They are content to live an average life merely because it is the path of least resistance for them. they would rather be safe than fully commited to the adventure of life. they are like little children who cling to their mothers until they are left crying and kicking at nursery and finally forced under survival pressure they begin to emerge into their own self-directed choices for exploring the possibilities of life. adults unfortunately only develop so far.
in essence, they are still immature kids content with their tiny little appreciation of life simply because it gives them a warm house to sit in with their cup of coffee and newspaper, watching the world tick by, as they ‘tip toe through life hoping to safely make it to the other end’. they are far from happy by my standard of judging happiness.
happiness like i said last night involves 4 factors: exhilaration, wonder, tranquility and love. there are degrees to such things. settle for less and then sum total of the happiness is less. pursue more, with balance, and happiness flowers.
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