| Monday, 19 May 2008 |
| it doesn't have to exist |
Today, while being surrounded by the most lavish of designer kitchenware, I came to a sudden realisation:
You can have the most lavish house in the country, the coolest car on earth, the largest paycheck across the planet, the most meaningful and successful career ever and the craziest bunch of friends in the whole universe...
And still feel like the loneliest loser that ever lived.
I think humans are too eager to be happy. Why can't we be completely unemotional and unfeeling, and just enjoy the emptiness of NOT feeling anything at all? I think that many of us, in an effort to be happy, seek out the company of others, the fun in activities, the intoxication of substances, but more often than not, we end up discovering that the high we so often sought for, isn't as great as we had hoped it to be. And than we come crashing down and desperately seeking to eat the humble pie and to lick our wounds.
I think to reach a state of nirvana is to accept the fact that you don't have to be happy all the time. Sometimes it takes so much bloody hard work to achieve happiness, its actually much easier and, ironically, happier to not try at all. Perhaps its just better to feel like... nothing at all. I'm not happy, I'm not sad; I've given up on being angry or depressed, I'm just feeling... nothing. Maybe that's the key to being... free! Yes. To be free.
Its a matter of finding and defining what it means to be happy. Very often, its all about finding a state that's neither here nor there: and being in limbo is strangely the state that brings you the most peace and contentment.
And its Vesak day, the perfect day to meditate and attain enlightenment.
What wonderful symmetry.Labels: soul |
posted by voldemort33 @ 20:52  |
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