Hold hands with the one you like and stroll on the road, even in the middle of snowy winter, you are still happy. Happiness is therefore simple, but it is not simple either. People have been pursuing happiness from generation to generation. Some people get it, but some people don't... What is happiness? A mystery that has been lingering in our hearts for thousands of years. We are thinking and searching, and perhaps, without realizing it, we have found the answer to happiness.
Happiness always comes with happiness, but simple happiness is not happiness. Joy can bring happiness, but a happy life also comes with pain, and that's life. Life is inseparable from the ups and downs, but it does not mean that we are no longer happy because of pain. On the contrary, happiness is the result of reflection. Although we will not be happy all the time, looking back on the past, our life is fulfilling and happy. This is happiness.
A simple life is a happy life. We feel happiness, but we need to realize happiness. The first ray of sunshine shines on our face every morning, waking us up from our sleep. We gradually open our eyes, without thinking about what we have to do today or what work remains unfinished. The only thing we feel is the warmth of that ray of sunshine. This is simple joy. But a simple life is always short-lived, because we always have to return to the trivial matters of reality, and without memories and comparison with reality, we will not discover this simple happiness. Therefore, we yearn for a simple life, but this yearning only exists in yearning, because this simple life is always short-lived, and in the long-term simplicity, we will not even realize this happiness.
Sisyphus offended the gods and was punished by pushing a stone to the top of a mountain every day. In this monotonous life, he found the true meaning of happiness. Happiness is having a small goal and always knowing that you are living for it. Therefore, instead of waiting for fate to grant us a simple life, we achieve simplicity in our own pursuit. So, I walked in front of the house every day and wrote poems in front of the window, because I like a quiet life and feel the quiet happiness. In this simple life I realized that this is the happiness I want.
Therefore, simple ideals bring simple life, simple life is also a happy life, and a happy life lets us know that we are living a happy life.
However, sometimes the ideal is simple, but we cannot realize it; sometimes the ideal is simple, but we cannot satisfy it. Fortune plays tricks on people, and there are always some poor people in the world who are being played by fate, and their lives are full of misfortunes. This is a complete tragedy, but in this tragedy, we see great happiness. We would like to thank those great thinkers who are not satisfied with their personal preferences but pursue the common happiness of all mankind. Their efforts have given those poor people the possibility of happiness, and they are also in this great ideal. Got happy satisfaction.
Perhaps, suffering creates great men, and those who are tricked by fate can find their own happiness on this difficult and great road, and it seems that this is also their only choice for happiness. But fate is always fair. Happy people can obtain simple happiness through simple ideals, while unfortunate people can also have great happiness through great ideals.
The fairness of fate is also reflected in the fact that the amount of happiness is directly proportional to one's own efforts. Great happiness must be indestructible, strive for ideals, and have no regrets in life; simple happiness is sometimes accompanied by pain, feeling confused, and not knowing what happiness is. Rousseau devoted his life to human ideals and persisted in the anti-feudal struggle to the end. He wrote heroic words in "Confessions": "No matter when the trumpet of the Doomsday Judgment sounds, I dare to hold this book and walk before the supreme judge. Speak loudly and boldly: Look! This is what I did, this is what I thought, and I was that kind of person... Please call those countless sentient beings to come to me and let them listen! My confession... Then let each of them reveal his soul with the same sincerity before your throne, and see who dares to say to you, 'I am better than this man'..." Rousseau is great, Even more happy. This kind of happiness will still shine even if the world is destroyed! On the contrary, an ordinary person's life always contains laughter and tears, happiness and bitterness. They always pursue happiness and live for happiness, but they stop at life. We cannot say that they are unhappy, but their happiness is fragile.
Now it seems that there is only one kind of person who does not have happiness, and that is the person who does not strive for happiness, and this kind of person does not seem to deserve happiness. Kant once proposed the concept of "deserving happiness", which means that if a person wants to have happiness, he must do things worthy of happiness. Many people misunderstand this concept and think that Kant just put forward a bunch of moral precepts. But in fact, this "deserving happiness" thing is just the pursuit of happiness. Happiness is an abstract concept that manifests itself differently in everyone. Only a person who truly knows what he wants, that is, a person who has a simple or great ideal, is worthy of happiness; and only a person who lives for his ideal is on the road to happiness. , only then you deserve happiness. Therefore, in this sense, ignorance and ignorance are equivalent to misfortune, because he will not truly know himself or understand what happiness is, so how can he pursue happiness? He may self-righteously pursue an absurd happiness.
This does not belong to him, and in the end, it will only bring deeper pain.
In a free and rational era, everyone has the right to pursue happiness. Nowadays, it is rare for people not to look for the answer to happiness. Almost everyone has a theory about happiness. But as far as the sources of its theories are concerned, they are nothing more than various books and media. These so-called happiness are just the result of being pieced together through just a few words without thinking or understanding. They think they are pursuing happiness, but in fact it is just the illusion of happiness.
For example, when an old man who has gone through vicissitudes of life returns, he looks back on the past and leaves behind a sentence: "Live in the present." Some people hold on to this wise saying and drink and have fun, thinking that this is happiness. But they did not see the vicissitudes of the old man's life, nor did they have their own understanding of this sentence. What they relied on was either just a lazy excuse, or a hasty answer when they were eager to find happiness. For the former, the excitement obtained in seeking pleasure is not happiness, while for the latter, what remains after many years must be deeper pain.
The road to happiness is the road to life, which is based on a clear understanding of oneself and will always belong to oneself. Without diverse life experiences and long-term and profound thinking and understanding, happiness cannot last long. But fortunately, our walking on the road to happiness is also a kind of happiness in itself. This abstract happiness can be experienced personally.
On this road to happiness, we might as well follow the footsteps of our predecessors to avoid going in circles, and also look at the road signs left by our predecessors to avoid going in the wrong direction... The road to happiness