As the sun rises, the moon falls; everything becomes bright. Yet soon, the moon decides to rise again, taking away the light, and only providing darkness. This idea can be translated to the roles of sadness and happiness in a person’s life. In order to better understand the moon and sun analogy, imagine this. Two items are placed on a balance labeled, ‘Human Emotion’. Those two weighted items are each labeled ‘Sadness’ and ‘Happiness’. The scale begins to wildly tip back and forth, never coming to a perfectly even rest. As Happiness becomes more influential, it steals away the weight from Sadness and makes itself the dominant emotion. However, soon enough, Sadness takes over, becoming a main focus. This exchange happens on a regular basis,
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As if he might one day convince himself… I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not …show more content…
Guru Osho Rajneesh. Renowned author John Stuart Mill. Poet Kahlil Gibran. All of these people have put their theories on happiness to the test, presenting two very strong sides. Mill presents the idea that happiness comes through passive actions, a person achieving happiness by not trying. Chbosky, Rajneesh, and Gibran have all set their sights on the idea that with happiness comes sadness, the two emotions working together to contribute to a person’s life. Whether Mill is right or not, it is easy to see where he is coming from and in the end, it’s all up to the person’s preferences and experiences. If a person’s lived a life sustained by Mill’s theory, then they themselves would find Mill’s to be correct. The same goes for anyone that lives as Chbosky, Rajneesh, and
As if he might one day convince himself… I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not …show more content…
Guru Osho Rajneesh. Renowned author John Stuart Mill. Poet Kahlil Gibran. All of these people have put their theories on happiness to the test, presenting two very strong sides. Mill presents the idea that happiness comes through passive actions, a person achieving happiness by not trying. Chbosky, Rajneesh, and Gibran have all set their sights on the idea that with happiness comes sadness, the two emotions working together to contribute to a person’s life. Whether Mill is right or not, it is easy to see where he is coming from and in the end, it’s all up to the person’s preferences and experiences. If a person’s lived a life sustained by Mill’s theory, then they themselves would find Mill’s to be correct. The same goes for anyone that lives as Chbosky, Rajneesh, and