{"id":142,"date":"2011-04-24T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-07-20T00:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:38:50","slug":"are-there-only-happy-moments-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"ARE THERE ONLY HAPPY MOMENTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Lida Prypchan<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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An article about depression appeared in a fashion magazine at the end of which the author talked about \u201chow to be happy again.\u201d \u00a0In order to regain one\u2019s happiness, besides sticking to a good diet and avoiding the use of stimulants, he recommended \u201ca short, brisk walk, or swimming fifty meters in a pool to improve your appreciation of life.\u201d \u00a0How can the issue of happiness \u2013 something considered by philosophers to be non-existent \u2013 be resolved in a magazine just by a little fifty meter swim: \u00a0Isn\u2019t this a rather superficial view?<\/span><\/div>\n
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As Benavente said, \u201cThere is no such thing as happiness in life\u2026only happy moments.\u201dSearching for something that is non-existent, such as happiness, is just as absurd as wanting to find a country where all the inhabitants are content with the political regime. \u00a0It\u2019s just as utopian to think that we will never be sad, as it is to feel, after an unfortunate experience, that we\u2019ll never be happy again. \u00a0Reasons for feeling either sad or happy vary in each individual according to his likes and dislikes, his outlook on life, his age, his problems and his needs. \u00a0For an Oriental, a happy moment can be something that a Westerner wouldn\u2019t even conceive of, and vice versa.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In spite of the fact that there\u2019s no such thing as happiness, happy persons do exist. \u00a0All that\u2019s needed to be one of them is not to analyze anything. \u00a0It\u2019s precisely those people whose brains are not acquainted with the word \u201canalysis\u201d that are the happy people. \u00a0This can be better explained with a quote about happiness:\u201d The only happy people are idiots, those who have no problems and those who do have problems but aren\u2019t aware of them.\u201d \u00a0And the world is so full of these people! \u00a0It\u2019s the people who have questions about why they\u2019re here and what life is who have the problem. \u00a0These are precisely the people who know the joy of discovery, who experience the grandeur of life or the greatest disappointment in it \u2013 but only after looking back and analyzing it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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If all we human beings were happy people without problems, then literature would never have come into existence. \u00a0The French author Simone de Beauvoir writes about this in The Woman Destroyed: \u201cThere is no story to be told about happy people. \u00a0The story of a person without problems, without doubts, without questions, full of happiness, could never be narrated, simply because such a person exists but does not live.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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What is certain is that we all experience happy moments in some form or other and devote our lives to whatever makes us feel better. \u00a0Some find great satisfaction in saving other people\u2019s lives, or dedicating their lives to art or religion, and many make great sacrifices in the hope of fulfilling an ultimate wish. \u00a0As an example of these latter ones, there is a story of a young saint who decided to renounce all desire until he was fit to travel from Poland to Rome to see His Holiness the Pope. \u00a0After many years of sacrifice he felt that his heart was free of all personal desire. \u00a0So he walked for miles and miles, across plains and over hills, until he found himself at the gates of the Eternal City, his lifelong desire. \u00a0Now that he was about to enter the city, he thought things over and said to himself, \u201cSince I have denied myself so many pleasures, will I not crown my piety by denying myself entrance into Rome and the chance to contemplate the face of the Holy Father?\u201d \u00a0So he turned back, a martyr to self-denial, and retraced his steps to the village where he\u2019d begun his journey. \u00a0History adds that when he found himself at home again, his mind became unhinged and he remained a raving lunatic for the rest of his days.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 By Lida Prypchan \u00a0 An article about depression appeared in a fashion magazine at the end of which the author talked about \u201chow to be happy again.\u201d \u00a0In order to regain one\u2019s happiness, besides sticking to a good diet and avoiding the use of stimulants, he recommended \u201ca short, brisk walk, or swimming fifty … <\/p>\n

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