I was thinking about how in my last post on Trying to Wake it occurred to me that maybe we really can choose to be happy.
If being happy is a choice but is not your regular habitual response to a certain stimulus, are you fooling yourself by making yourself happy? Are you in fact deluding yourself and denying your emotions?
Or are you in fact breaking a bad habitual response? Maybe if we chance upon a way to choose to be happy and don't make full use of this gift, then we are in fact cheating ourselves? If you think of it, why would anyone choose to not be happy if they could control it?
But is chosen happiness deluded happiness? Does it matter? What do you think?
***cross-posted on Trying to Wake
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3 comments:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh afffiieeeeeeeeee!! I don't get it. hehe
I have always believed that happiness is a state of mind. It is how you choose to respond to what is happening around you. I don't think it is deluding yourself - but then again, I could be wrong.
I don't necessarily think that you can choose to be happy. You can, however, decide how you deal with a situation. For example if a tragedy occurs a person might choose to sulk in melancholy for years until they pass away from neglect or mourn their loss, pick themselves up and say "well, shit happens."
I tend to look at things for their use value For example, what use is mourning the loss of say, a job? you could mope for hours on end or talk shit baout your boss and it'll all amount to nothing in the end. I will agree that there is a certain catharsis that comes with bitching about a bad situation, but after allowing yourself that you have to move on, becaus staying in the state of bitching in melancholy achieves nothing.
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