Misery

attainable, but they tend to make things even worse. What you probably didn't know is that there's a way to make your misery go away for good. It'll take hard work to get started, but once you get over that initial hump, it'll be actually easier than the alternatives. To show you that my solution is worth the effort, I'll go over the typical ways people deal with their misery and explain their disadvantages. ## Temporary Fixes Let's start with some that are easily attainable: food and…

is sentenced to death. Through Dou E’s hardships, Hanqing makes a statement that mortality is onerous. Dou E laments, “My heart is full of grief, I have suffered for so many years! Unending sorrow which I cannot banish, unceasing reasons for fresh misery” (lines 105-106, 110-111). Our mortal lives are a heavy load to carry – we often carry more pain than we would…

educated the people in our culture today. Colin Wilson a well quoted man believe that the society has become corrupt and that the average man in our society and become nearly useless. Colin Wilson once said,” The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain”, I heavily disagree with this statement. The first statement that Wilson makes, is that the average man today is a conformist. From my understanding a conformist is…

From an early age, Blake began experiencing prophetic visions of God and angels which had a lasting effect on the writing he produced. Blake had the belief that his writings were of national importance and that they could be understood by a majority of men. While this was not a belief Blake shared with the public, it did not stifle his need to share the Holy Word with his audience. As a poet, Blake presents two sides of his views, but dismisses neither in favor of the other. In reading any of…

In the novel, A Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield feels unhappy due to the phonies which create his own misery. Wherever Holden goes, he is surrounded by people who he has trouble coping with and relating to. The ones he encounters that do not act genuine or sincere send him spiralling into an abyss of isolation and hatred towards the world. Holden has left many schools such as Whooton school and Elkton Hills because of his views on the people there being phony. He cannot prosper in an…

In his “Inaugural Address”, President John F. Kennedy uses pathos to convince the audience of the benefits of democracy and the spreading of its principles. Throughout his speech Kennedy uses specific techniques to arouse powerful feelings of nationalism within the listeners. One of these techniques is parallelism. He exclaims that this time in America is, “...symbolizing an end as well as a beginning…” because a new chapter in history is about to commence (2). He attempts to excite them at…

When Utopias Take a Turn Infamous artist Stephen King said in his book The Running Man “In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives”. Often times leaders or people with lots of authority have ideas of what they want society to be like and they start to make changes to work towards that goal. These perfect societies that these leaders dream of are called utopias. These important figures often go to the extreme with these ideas and start to enforce rules and…

How would you feel if you had an incurable illness and you couldn’t speak or move? Would your parents decide take you out of your misery? That’s what Shawn faced in “Stuck In Neutral’ by Terry Trueman. His father Syney wanted to take Shawn out of his misery. Legalizing euthanasia is a solution to the problem of a family who has an ailing member, which benefits both parties. It gives relief to the loved ones as well as the suffering victim. Yet the legalization of euthanasia supports the…

men of good family leave home for the homeless life, and you will abide in it” (Pojman and Vaughn, 2014, pg. 565). When Buddha is talking with Malunkyaputta he says, “I explained; the origin of misery have I explained’ the cessation of misery have I explained; and the path leading to the cessation of misery have I explained. Because, Malunkyaputta, this does profit, has to do with the fundamentals of religion, and tends to aversion, absence of passion, cessation, quiescence, knowledge, supreme…

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” by Colin Wilson has a very strong meaning to it. Wilson is challenging the average man by stating that what he does is insufficient and that the average man should do more. He says that the average man just accepts it when bad things happen to him and he doesn’t do anything about it. Personally, I think that he is challenging people like the ones in his quote to step up and do…