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Happiness...
18 years ago
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Antho artist in Melbourne, Australia.
If you'd like to get in contact please use Kraden on Telegram, or my Twitter.
If you'd like to get in contact please use Kraden on Telegram, or my Twitter.
I was sitting here earlier today thinking about what our podcast means to me. I decided that I wanted a voice, and to give others voice (while having a little bit of fun).
So to have a little topic of discussion I thought I'd talk aboutHappiness..
That ever elusive element that we all seem to vainly strive for, an attempt to give our existence a sense of wholeness, that our lives once lived have been good? Whether happiness on a more spiritual level, the knowing you have done well for your common man, or more so happiness of self gratification, the act of doing what you wanted whilst ignoring the consequences? Happiness is perhaps the sense of completeness in our lives, something to be strived for from second to second and year to year.
And yet our society infringes upon this by telling us that happiness is something we should feel guilty for, that self gratification is the means by which we become cold, bloated and ultimately self-absorbed individuals. That we deprive ourselves of that which we enjoy in an attempt to better clean our spiritual mantelpiece, a strike against an instinctive feeling taught to us that we should feel guilty for enjoying simple pleasures? Food, is possible one of the greatest sensory experiences one can have apart from love making and new feelings in new places, like a tropical breeze or the touch of cool spring water newly melted from the frozen mountaintops. Food is something that can be greatly enjoyed, but becomes the best example I can present in how we deprive ourselves of that which makes up happy.
If one enjoys eating, our society tells us that we will become fat, depressed and unwell. But instead of eating good food and becoming fat, healthy and happy, we believe what society preaches and reject food because it is enjoyable. However because you enjoy it, it becomes a comfort and you will eat anyway. Because you force yourself not to enjoy food you feel guilty for eating and are, again, compelled to find comfort in that which you punish yourself for doing. Much like a rolling tide we are slowly sucked further under the waves, gradually making it harder and harder to reach the surface. In the end you continuously do something for the enjoyment but force yourself to float a few inches above the surface of that very same enjoyment, and in doing so fail to realize that you are already downing deep in the depths of the problem.
That which we enjoy, which makes us happy is something that should be embraced. If you constantly push happiness away you will only ever fail to appreciate that which makes you smile. If one is overworked, instead of relishing in the completion of a small task we depress over the possible tasks of the future. If one is lonely, instead of relishing the few friendships they do have we depress over the empty spaces and broken relationships. Our society is steadily focusing more and more on the minimalistic, the bare and ordered life. Devices are getting smaller, experiences quicker and more passionate, time to enjoy them shorter and the holes in our souls more and more sparse, and empty.
Take a moment to enjoy that which makes you happy. Stop feeling guilty over the little sparks of happiness that flicker through your life and actually take the time to experience them. If you stop denying that which makes you happy youll crave it less, the less you crave it the less youll eat that next biscuit or the less youll cling savagely to that small friendship. And because you actually took the time to enjoy your small happiness the less youll feel guilty for being just that happy.
Life should not be measured by the experiences that we have rejected during our years on this small rock in space, but by the small experiences that we could have and share that made us smile and breath in the world. Sometimes it is important to deprive ones self of something to better live and share our lives, but there will always be something just as good further around the corner.
Knowing when to let yourself be happy will be the greatest gift you could ever give yourselfHow do you stay happy, or even, what is happiness to you?
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If it's not taken carefully, then confusion takes its chance... & confusion just leads to pain.
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Eh? What is this, deja vu!?
Prime Tarradox!
i havnt been really really happy in a wile D=
ROAD TRIP TO PERTH NEXT YEAR!