Thread: A Guide to Happiness

Absurdity, in a nutshell is to view life as ultimately void of any objective purpose. What are your views in comparison to that?

i view life the same way a dancer does while in the middle of dancing.

Sitting in a pool of sorrow within yourself.
Keeping rage pinned up.
Letting the world throw you around.
being weak and helpless.
Are you ever happy?
Who will come to help you.

Originally Posted by tropicalbreeze

i view life the same way a dancer does while in the middle of dancing.

You find meaning in the moment. Good answer - it's unfortunate that the mind has the natural tendency to occupy itself with the past (from immediate to distant), and the future (from immediate to the 'bigger picture'). I agree that happiness is found in the moment - it, however, is no easy feat.

Originally Posted by tropicalbreeze

i view life the same way a dancer does while in the middle of dancing.

This is, funnily enough, a very absurdist type of statement.

Here's how it works. If you need to cheer up, listen to some ska. However, this doesn't work too well if you feel like chilling out. If that's the case, listen to some dub.

Here is a guide to happiness:

0. Forget that 'finding happiness' will be easy or difficult.
1. When you experience suffering of any kind, find the power within yourself to give it up.
2. Every time you do this, you liberate yourself more.

When I over think things my mood tends to lower. So that's one of the things I try to avoid doing.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

Explain how to be happy

Easy.

Step 1: Identify all of your urges and desires.
Step 2: Satisfy them.
Step 3: Feel happy.

Through our natural design, our urges and desires are necessary survival needs that if satisfied, should leave you as a highly productive and efficient spectacle of human being. Upon achieving this, you will be approached by many desiring mates, which in turn will complete the cycle of natures conquest to populate the world with the greatest organisms it can.

Nature is pretty smart, when you think about it.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention, if you don't like being subjected to this dynamic, there are plenty of organized religions out there that can tell you something else. But at the end of the day, this is it.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

So you're saying you do believe life has some sort of ultimate meaning? Are you able to describe in some way what that is?

Read this ad hoc of my response to the OP.

The intended ultimate "purpose" of human beings is to grow and achieve as much as possible. This is executed through satisfying urges that in turn move us towards this goal.


Through the advance of power and capacity, human beings will eventually create/restore the order of the universe because only through knowledge of all of its working will ultimate survival be attainable.

So perhaps the purpose of the universe is to sustain itself, and through human beings or some other organism or force, it can be sustained.

Furthermore, we are the as much of the "universe" as the universe is of the universe. Rather than the degree of separation in classification, we ought to say we are the mind of the universe, attempting to sustain itself.

Maybe.. there is some way we can prevent the universe, that being all space and life that occupies it, from collapsing upon itself again, as it is expected to in years to come.

Wonder what would happen if we/once we sustain a perfect paradigm of our reality.

... If only I was a science fiction writer.

Live in the moment, not anywhere else.

Step outside your comfort zone. Give yourself the opportunity to surprise yourself.

If you're feeling down, stop dwelling on it and get proactive about it. There's a technique to being happy just like everything else; practise it whenever possible.

Seek solutions instead of clever ways to complain.

Accomplish your personal goals, large and small.

Learn and follow your own rhyme/rhythm.

Revel in the good things in your life whenever it's appropriate (and even sometimes when it's not).

Sing or dance, if you feel like it.

Take time to appreciate little, wonderful things.

When all else fails, listen to Don't Stop Believin' and, at least for those four minutes, give life the old Steve Perry gusto.

Spoiler for musical option B:

Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie