Accepting the Hopeless Nature of Happiness

The playwright Aeschylus (525 BC to 456 BC) said,

"He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

WOW!  Talk about 'Night on Bald Mountain'.  Yet he agrees with me (or, more correctly, I agree with him) - Wisdom (which is what makes me Happy) has a synergistic relationship with pain and adversity (which leaves me unhappy).  Just because it is Hopeless though, does not mean you should give up. I feel somewhat liberated since my first post a week ago when I verbalized the hopeless nature of happiness; (what do they say about admitting you have a problem?). I feel an acceptance now, and a renewed sense of energy.  I am freed from the bonds of facade, by recognizing and accepting my hurt, which allows a glimpse of Truth (Wisdom), which in turn causes pain; which I accept and recognize  ...  Final Score: Happy 2 - Unhappy 2; most days (in my life) Unhappy outscores Happy by about 10 to 7. But that's okay.  I refuse to give up, because those days when Happy pulls off an upset - those are great days.

And because we have some great days, we naturally want them all to be great. After all, that's written somewhere in our Constitution - right?  Actually it's in the Declaration of Independence that our Founding Fathers said something about mankind being endowed with "certain unalienable Rights" including  "the pursuit of Happiness". I believe that too many of us have ignored 'pursuit' and believe we have the 'Right' - we are 'Entitled' - to Happiness. And when we are unhappy ('the absence of, or any state other than, Happiness) we are angry; because we think we should be happy; and too often we look for someone to blame. ACCEPT IT!  There is no one to blame; not even yourself. PURSUE Happiness by pursuing Wisdom and Truth! APPRECIATE when you grasp or even glimpse Happiness for a short period of time; and (as hard as it may be) appreciate the pain and adversity that precedes those moments.

Bottom Line - if you believe you are 'a happy person' you are fooling (tricking) yourself by using some of the aids (crutches) referred to in my previous Post - Hopeless Happiness. I am not saying there is anything wrong with this; I am saying that it cannot (by my definition) be a True Happiness.

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