Why can't we ever be "happy"?

[53fd]

The drive that pushes people to achieve greater things is also the greatest source of their uncertainty and isolation in life. People spend their entire lives looking for answers, trying to figure themselves out & what they want out of life. And in most cases, they fail to even decipher themselves on their death bed.

When did the world become so complicated, or is it us? The biggest question we must ask ourselves is, are we asking ourselves the right question? Are “what do I want out of life?” and “what makes me happy?” the right questions to ask ourselves?

People are complex beings, and made even more complex with the world we live in. We are directly impacted by the changing environment we live in, by the people we are surrounded by: one complex entity being affected by the hundreds/thousands of distinct complex ones around him. A drop in an (all-encompassing) ocean.

Our brain is constantly undergoing chemical reactions, that makes us feel at top of the world at some point in life, & down in the pit at another. Our brain is a complex entity itself, unable to keep up with, & analytically/logically process the increasingly dynamic world: dynamic events of an excessively complex world.

We are unable to definitively conclude what makes us “happy”, because of the limitations of our brain in keeping up with & logically analyzing the complex world around us: something that gives us happiness at some point in life may become a source of great pain at another point. We are in a constant state of contradiction with ourselves.

We are unable to remain content in life, because being content is against the natural drive of man, always striving for better.

 

[Paan Singh]

its very difficult to fight with your mind and those who controls it ,is the happiest person here.

 

[Armstrong]

Perhaps Thoreau can answer that for you :

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."

 

[joekrish]

In simple economics "supply is greater than demand" as long as it does not change one is never going to find happiness.
Anyways all the best.

 

[Zulkarneyn]

In simple economics "supply is greater than demand" as long as it does not change one is never going to find happiness.
Anyways all the best.

Is it not the other way around, "demand is greater than supply"

 

[Burger Boy]

This reminds me of that thing John Lennon once said although I don't remember what it was word for word.

 

[Avisheik]

In order for us to feel happy we must go through other feelings as well

 

[Developereo]

This reminds me of that thing John Lennon once said although I don't remember what it was word for word.

"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"

 

[Splurgenxs]

THe meaning of Ones life is something people need to figure out on there own .
But first one needs to discover who they are.....i think most people not content in life, tend to be those who haven't yet determined what kind of person they wanna be.

Ive known older people who choose to wishfully remain ignorant of what humanity is all about ,cause somehow they cant process the pointlessness of it all....

people tend to look for a purpose grander than there meager existence, and they find solace in there country , there religion or there family(children) it how we are built.

This is all about being human and then u end up dead.

And to end it ;Some times its also good to be Blissfully ignorant of realities if one needs to live a happy life.