Transience

I have reached a decision and I would like to announce it to the world.

“It is not possible to be happy.”

Do I hear a pandemonium of protests?? Hear me out before you all pro-happiness people start to counter me.

It is possible to experience brief spells of happiness spread over a period of time (ok...let’s call that a lifetime) but to expect to attain a perpetual state of happiness would be to aim for the unattainable.

Look around…there is not a single person who can claim to be happy all the time.

There are people who would say that a lot depends on your perspective which is true. What makes you happy might not be a trigger for me but that does not mean people who have set easier goals in life are more likely to be happier.

Unlike what wise men (majority of society calls them wise…I think otherwise which is palpable from my snooty and derisive comments) tell us happiness is not need-based. If you tone down out your expectations you do not make yourself closer to happiness…you are just giving in to sloth (a sin according another set of wise men…these people have no consistency) Your acceptance of whatever life has to offer might make you fitter for survival but it does no good in making you happy permanently.

Happiness can be at best likened to orgasms…it is definitely possible to have lots of them in a life time but it would be moronic to expect to experience it 24/7.

If that is not good enough a deal for you try to pay off your karmic debts fast and wait for your next life…may be it would be set in Utopia.

PS: People with opposing views are most welcome to start a debate. I being a “jhogrute opinionated bong” am fond of participating in heated arguments.