Comments | janeandsimple: what is happiness to you, david?

janeandsimple

what is happiness to you, david?

Feb 03, 2007 16:08

PSA: the following message was composed after three full days of listening to snow patrol. please continue at your own risk. you have been warned.been thinking more and more lately about biological clocks and evolutionary predisposition and happiness ( Read more... )

emo, relationships, happiness

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alexleven February 4 2007, 04:28:32 UTC

Glad I'm not the only one who has been thinking about biological clocks, etc.

Do you want to overcome the urge? Or is it inconvenient? For me it's inconvenient, I think.

katylyn February 4 2007, 06:39:53 UTC

Sometimes the hard-wired happiness idea freaks me out, because the whole 6 years of false starts and shams is kinda discouraging. But sometimes it's reassuring: like, it makes me believe if I can just find that right combination, I will be happy. That makes me feel a little better in the times when I just feel like I've been programmed to be unhappy and there's nothing I can do about it.

skirt_girl_ February 4 2007, 07:58:49 UTC

Did the baby at the party have to be so cute and well-behaved?

ladykutenay February 4 2007, 15:16:08 UTC

Oh how I hate biological determinism. I want to have a baby because I think parenting is a job I'll love, I'll be good at, and I'm self-centred enough to believe there's a good chance that a person I raise will do good and interesting things. I want to do it soonish because medically there are lots of reasons why having babies past 35 can be a problem. But man, it is all free will and choice and I will punch anyone who tries to tell me any differently.

I totally will not punch anyone. I will probably be all conciliatory and 'let's agree to disagree.'

saintbryan February 10 2007, 03:46:54 UTC

Many people seem to get this idea that what they think evolution asks of us is what is necessary for life. For happiness. Give me a break. My father for example, is horrified at the idea that I might decide to never have children. He is terrified at the thought of his seed will extinguish itself. Commit "evolutionary suicide". As if if I didn't have children, like "we're supposed to", he might as well have never existed. I think that's a pretty silly idea. He's not too concerned about happiness though. To him, fulfilling the "purpose" of life has nothing to do with personal happiness. Simply the cold, (ir)rational, and vain struggle for some kind of immortality ( ... )