Human happiness is happiness within yourself. We have the freedom to create our own happiness regardless of whats going on in the outside world.
I agree with the idea of finding happiness within yourself. Its true because we should not depend on external factors to be happy. You should be happy with who you are in the inside. If you aren't happy with yourself you can not be truly happy with your life. Until you accept your own flaws and embrace your values, you can really be happy with anything else. The worst thing is to depend on someone else or something else to be happy. People and materiel things are replaceable.
There is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is "the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints". Not even the freedom to think whatever we want to think. Are our thoughts really our own individual creations or a mixture of different influences and how we choice to put them together into one state of mind ? what do you think ? People can argue that we are free in our own minds because we think whatever we want to, but i strongly believe that everything that goes through a persons head is influenced by something in the outside world. From the day you are born, the ideas of what is right or wrong is driven in your mind by someone else (your parents) . As you grow older , influences from different aspects of your life starts to shape your mind. Everyone might not think in the same exact matter but there are common ground in one's thoughts. If there weren't people would never be able to agree upon things.
I believe that the only "freedom" we have is to choice to look at things in a negative or positive way; how to view your life.
*sorry my post is all over the place. I couldn't get my thoughts organized.
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i like your blog. you did good. i strongly agree with your thoughts because i think everyone should be happy with who they are because if you dont have any respect for yourself who will respect you? maybe hapiness does come from within because external things can always be taken away. and at the end we are alone so we have to be happy with who we are. and freedom as you said basically is your thoughts but also it has its limits of how far you can get.
ReplyDeleteYour blog post really had me open up to all these new thoughts.Epsically when you stated "You should be happy with who you are in the inside. If you aren't happy with yourself you can not be truly happy with your life. Until you accept your own flaws and embrace your values, you can really be happy with anything else." I agree with this totally ,you first have to learn how to love youself before you can love anybody else.Just maybe if we all found happiness inside ourselves we be able to be free, whatever that freedom means for the person.Only thing i question alittle bit is the dependent part ,yes I agree we should learn to depend ourselves but I think we be suprized the happiness we can find in depending on others.
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