Saturday, February 28, 2009

The search for man.

What does man search for? Man has many positive experiences, as well as negative experiences. I may be happy being rich, famous, and being generally positive. But, why would I want to be all those things? Why does a human being want to be happy? Because otherwise, he would be unhappy? So, is being happy, a cover up for being unhappy? Does the human being feel, that I would otherwise be miserable, so it is best that I am happy? So, in a way, we are in a bind, to our happiness, and unhappiness. What the human being does not realize is, that an unhappy person, does not want to be unhappy. He, too, wants to be happy. But, can he help his unhappiness? Could he stop his unhappiness from not happening? If such be the case, that a person cannot stop unhappiness from happening, then, can a person stop happiness from happening? Then, further, why does a person look for happiness? Does the search for happiness, make a person look at unhappiness as unacceptable, and only happiness as acceptable? Is the search for happiness, the cause of the reason for us encountering unhappiness? Is the quest for peace the reason for encountering anarchy? There does not seem to be anything beyond peace and anarchy, happiness and unhappiness, but some people look beyond nonetheless. What are they looking at? Are they searching for a higher truth than happiness and unhappiness, peace and anarchy? What is that higher truth? The cause of happiness and unhappiness? Or even beyond that? To be fair, a person, if he looks beyond happiness and unhappiness, does not know what he is looking for. The search may be as elusive as the search for impossibility, but such a person is very patient in his search.

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