Tuesday, August 2, 2011

If you want happiness and freedom from misery why do you keep walking away from it?

Human beings almost always do the opposite of what they consciously want.

You say you want happiness and freedom from misery but you keep doing everything possible that will make you more unhappy and more miserable.

You try to chase for that “happiness” when you do not even know what “happiness” all about.

You set a goal and tell yourself that the achievement of your goal will make you happy. You work hard at achieving that goal. You neglect everything else. Someone has told you that you have to be focused to achieve that. You believed without knowing.

Focus is good but you are focusing on achieving something that you believe will make you happy. You believe that it will make you happy but you do not know if it will. You just proceed with your belief without ever making the effort to know what is it that you are chasing. You have never tried to know if achieving that goal will really make you happy.

You have never tried to know what happiness is for you. How could you when you have never really even tried to know yourself?

Since you have never known yourself, you keep chasing after things that satisfy your ego, your desires and your beliefs. You mistake these things for what you want.

Since they are not what you need but believed they are what you wanted, you end up unhappier than before. You become more miserable and set up another goal that you believe will make you happy.

As long as you keep living in this cycle of belief after belief without knowing, you will repeat the cycle of unhappiness and misery in your life.

If you want to be happy, you must know.

If you want to be free from misery, you must know.

You must first know what causes unhappiness and misery.

Only then can you avoid the cycle of unhappiness and the ensuing misery.

END.

NEXT: What causes unhappiness and misery (IF it is meant to be written)

2 comments:

  1. salam alayk..

    first time reading this blog its already caught my attention..

    not 'knowing' it at first, pushes me to read till ...the penultimate... then a quick guess would be: hey, its some kind of motivation or religiously spoken, i must say it covers both.

    a well done write-up!

    on the other hand maybe it just me, I somehow confused with the rightful thinking of the author, by reading the title, whether its actually discourage the readers to chase their dreams/goals. ..?
    otherwise, without trying how a person would know if that 'seed of effort'(the things he/she been doing)will 'blossomly' nurtured to become a mighty tree of happiness in life?

    after all, in my opinion its worth of trying u see! :D

    just wanna share a verse from Holy quran where God the Omnipotent said (6:59):

    "And with Him are the keys of the unseen; none knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there within the darknesses of the earth and no moist or dry [thing] but that it is [written] in a clear record."

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  2. Putry Analysa,

    thanks for dropping by. It is not a question of me or anyone discouraging the chasing of goals or dreams of anyone. No one really can stop the hunt for the dream but the hunter herself. The point is many chase what they know not not because it is not capable of knowing but because they have never known themselves in the first place.

    The verse you quoted - true the Supreme One is all knowledgeable and omnipotent. He knows the unseen. But the sad fact is many of the matters that the Supreme One has made visible to human beings have been taken to be "unseen" by thier ignorance, indolence and apathy.

    Have a pleasant journey in Life.

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