From Claire's Journal
--I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want, and I will give you an honest answer. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.--
Hmmm... I might have to answer in private if some of these get too racy O.o I don't ( Read more... )
Hmmm... I might have to answer in private if some of these get too racy O.o I don't ( Read more... )
I honestly don't know if you can truly make yourself happy, but you CAN disillusion yourself into a state of merriment... I think your happiness is only 50% effected by what you do/say/etc and how you react to things, or choose to take things/situations/people. I think the rest is up to others, your environment, your upbringing, your culture, and other influences in your life.
For the second question, need has to be defined. People don't need many things, but they want them, find them necessary, convenient, and/or useful. I'm inclined to argue that we don't really need clothes for where we live... the peoples of the rain forest didn't need much clothes, and the clothes actually helped breed bacteria and gave them diseases they were not used to because Western society (i.e. Christian missionaries) saw them "naked" and needing to be clothed. I'm off topic here, I guess. Too much thinking about anthropology and making my own theories lately... Personally, I don't think I need many of the things I'm surrounded by, but I like to have the things I have and more... Silly capitalism >.<
And finally to the third. That's another tricky one. I am partially who I want to be, but I wish for more (of course) - more recognition, more prestige, more knowledge, more material and monetary wealth, and the rest. But less fat ^^() In other words, on some basic level, I like who I am and I am what I would like to be. Though improvement is needed. Batteries not included.
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