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"Are you happy Nathan?"
"Not especially. I guess I have a few issues that plague me."
"Oh dear. I'm sorry to hear that. You see I think there comes a time when a man has to ask himself, whether he wants a life of happiness, or a life of meaning."
"I'd like to have both."
"Can't be done. Two very different paths. To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But, a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future."
- Linderman, Nathan
Heh, Who ever thought TV would raise a fairly valid assessment on the meaning of happiness and meaning. If you think about it is true. Those who are happiest take every day as it comes, not worrying about what has been or what may happen in the future. Those who desire meaning are always obsessing over what will come and what has happened to them.
"Not especially. I guess I have a few issues that plague me."
"Oh dear. I'm sorry to hear that. You see I think there comes a time when a man has to ask himself, whether he wants a life of happiness, or a life of meaning."
"I'd like to have both."
"Can't be done. Two very different paths. To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But, a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future."
- Linderman, Nathan
Heh, Who ever thought TV would raise a fairly valid assessment on the meaning of happiness and meaning. If you think about it is true. Those who are happiest take every day as it comes, not worrying about what has been or what may happen in the future. Those who desire meaning are always obsessing over what will come and what has happened to them.