"Somewhere in the '60s and '70s we started expecting to be happy, and changed our lives - left town, left families, switched jobs - if we were not. And society strained and cracked in the storm.
"Why? We have lost the old knowledge that happiness is overrated - that, in a way, life is overrated. We have lost, somehow, a sense of mystery about us, our purpose, our meaning, our role. Our ancestors believed in two worlds, and understood this to be the "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" one. We are among the first generations of man that actually expected to find happiness here on earth, and our search for it has caused such - unhappiness. The reason: you do not believe in another, higher world, if you believe that this is your only chance at happiness, then if the world does not give you a good measure of its riches, you despair."
one of the reasons why i like reading is because i get to hear what other people has to say. i guess that is the key to understanding: hearing out. (if only we try to hear each other out, i'm sure it'd be a cinch to undersand people and be understood.) more often than not, what people say could be too uniquely intense to ignore. this particular essay that i qouted above speaks so much truth that i would like to share it with anyone who cares to read. see, i didn't realize this until i read it. i was stunned by its veracity, i hope you were, too.
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