Monday, July 9, 2012

Survival At the Cost of Happiness

What would you do for your happiness?
When one is asked this question the general and typically answer is that they would do what they believe will make them happy.

Do you want to survive? Typical answer is yes, I want to survive.
What would you do for your survival? Typically answer is - anything to survive

So, what if your survival was at the expense of your happiness?

Ideally
Ideally, and commonly when people are faced with questions about living and happiness, they would answer that they would want to live happily. Their answer may also be somewhere on the lines of there's "no point to living if one is not happy/ miserable. However, there are some that would say that things change and that they will be happy.

Realistically though, I believe that when it comes down to it - we are hard wired to survive. Partially because I also believe that happiness is a state of mind. We may not be happy for a period of time for however long it may be... but to die or simply to not survive/living is a permanent end.


Just something to think about - since life is full of different colors and shades of colors and shades of those colors.


The Social Nerd