The purpose of this post is NOT to rain on anyone's parade...it is not my
intent...so please don't take it that way if you have been part of the "I
want to be happy thread".
For me, "I want to be happy" doesn't quite cover it, tho.
So many people do so many things because they want to be happy...and not
all of them are of equal worth, imo.
Strung out crackheads snort crack cause they want to be happy.
Paranoid dictators do the ethnic cleansing thing cause they want to be
happy.
Obsessed pedophiles troll the net cause they want to be happy.
But I DO want to be happy too!
So how do I work / play with this thing myself? By realizing that the only
thing that REALLY can make me happy is the experience of being FREE.
For me, being FREE is both the necessary and the sufficient condition for
happiness. Everything else, it seems to me, is gravy.
When I am experiencing life as a FREE being, life is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. When
I fall asleep, or forget, or get disconnected (or whatever words you care
to use) life is not quite so good...and sometimes is quite "bad".
If life gets "bad", and that's where I concentrate all my remedial
efforts...sometimes life gets WORSE.
On the other hand, if life gets "bad", and I concentrate my remedial
efforts on getting FREE once again, life immediately gets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
Is this abe-ish? I dunno!
But I do know that trading in FREE in order to get HAPPY would be a bad
deal for me at this point in my life.
Comments? Ideas? Thoughts?
NetPaul
