Some people cannot be happy
By Chad Williams <czm_1@hotmail.com>
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Some people cannot be happy.
By: Chad Williams
“I believe, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.”
-Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving)
The Matrix
The Great Siddhartha Guatama (known more widely as Buddha) once said, “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way”. In essence, he meant that if you cannot be happy where you are, you would never find it. In his words is the essence of the elusive abstract of happiness. Some people search their entire lives for something that rests inside their heart the whole time. These however are the people who seek happiness. There are others who are not so willing to give up their sorrows.
Some people would rather be unhappy. Many times they are called pessimists or cynics. Often the word depression rears its head further generalizing the matter. In reality, I’m not sure if those terms actually cover the truth of it. There are some who on their worst days will find contempt in the happiness of others. They will see a smile and only wonder (if not act) on how to wipe it away.
There are others yet who see the lack of joy as not a hindrance, but a level of joy in itself. They use the lack of happiness (or surplus of sadness) in a constructive manner. They learn from it. A level mind is their own sense of peace. Measuring out the joys and sorrows of their world and finding a balance, knowledge can be theirs.
And still yet, there are people who are emotional masochists. They spend their lives searching for emotional turmoil. Some of these people are searching for the same thing the people in the previous example are – knowledge. Others are unhealthy in the truest and most fundamental sense of the word.
You may be saying to yourself at this point, “all of them seem like psychos to me”. Perhaps you aren’t. I cannot speak for you. If you are however, it may interest you to know that happiness has been officially listed as a state of mental illness. Look it up.
What I’m trying to say at heart is that happiness is possible for anyone. There are just those select few who find no comfort in it.
(author’s note: For those curious - yes, I’m happy.)
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Eric Howell <grayghost13@hotmail.com>Excellent Paper! I agree with all of your points, and you had excellent examples. Nice use of emotional masochists. Damn Fine Job!
Matt Wright <surfski8@hotmail.com>i agree with eric
Chris Graham <collge-guy@inetgenesis.com>Good paper, I liked the matrix quote
Amanda Thompson <amandat211@yahoo.com>I agree completely with you. this is an awesome paper. you did a great job illustrating your point.
Tally Loyd <Tally_Loyd@Hotmail.com>I was impressed. I share many of your points. Excellent job.
Danny Frady <garydfrady@hotmail.com>Great points and an outstanding paper!
missy kergosien <missc4@hotmail.com>interesting paper. I liked your use of a quote.
Wendy Garner <wlg51@backroads.net>Good paper
Travis Galloway <hyperdedo@hotmail.com>I feel that this is one of the more... umm.. "sincere".. essays written... Great job... Its always nice to see someone looking at the inverse of things... Again I say, if you expect happiness, you are bound to be disapointed.. It works for sadness too... Also, when ones enters the role of happiness or sadness, this is what they want... This is where they find their comfort... Nice paper...
Will Mulkey <wrmulkey@hotmail.com>Good paper. I like your use of quotes.
Cynthia Glanton <cynthia_glanton@hotmail.com>Good ideas. Nice job.
Karen <karen_long@email.com>Those who immerse themselves in sadness are doing what actually pleases them. Therefore, they would be finding happiness in their own way, just not in the way that is most common for us all. Oh, but damn fine job!
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Kimberly Pitts <KLP103@hotmail>I agree, and I enjoyed reading your paper!
Crystal Gray <cgray32@hotmail.com>This is a good paper. I agree.
nichole vernon <nichole317@excite.com>good points. i enjoyed your paper.
Jason Stansill <jasonstansill@hotmail.com>Really good paper you got there!
Heather Ferguson <AddysmomF@netscape.net>Where in the DSM-IV is happy listed as a mental illness? I would like to know, I have never heard of that, but would like to look it up. Different, but interesting paper.
Chad Williams <czm_1@hotmail.com>Thanks for your comments. Anyone is welcome to talk to me about this in greater length anytime.
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Eric Doyle Knight <frruita@hotmail.com>Damn good job. You have great points. I also like how you explored the topic from a number of angles. I agree with Travis's comments totally. Especially like the points about knowledge from suffering. Perhaps life isn't <supposed> to be one thing or another, it just is. And you deal with it as it comes.
"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --Will Shakespeare, Hamlet
"We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain." --James O'Barr, The Crow
"This is the greatest moment of your life, and you are missing it." --Tyler Derden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club