Happiness and Freedom

Jul 05, 2004 16:15

Hold on to happiness just a little longer, harbour it's being, make it stronger. What a noble explanation. What a simple concept, care and it will grow, yet there are things we don't quite know. It's being will weaken, so long as freedon is disallowed, and yet it will weaken as well, so long as freedom is permitted. How to conform yourself to accomplish such delicate balance? How do you limit the freedom of yourself in order to limit the freedom of something else? How does it work? Can hapiness be accomplished by acheiving absolute freedom? Or will it frighten away the aspects of life that make up the sought after state of mind? Or will absolute freedom encourage hapiness to grow, if an individual is thus void of any joy from anything other than themselves? But then again, how could absolute freedom actually be feasable? If there is not a thing in the world you need, or care about, or love, not even yourself, or if there was no substance or action to be consumed or used in order to live, I suppose that might be a form of it. But might the individual still NEED to live? And if you WANT happiness, doesn't that confirm that you possess not the absolute freedom? Therefore, are you not free until you are laid to rot six feet under? But, in order to do that, don't you NEED something?
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