Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The Good Life, 3rd Blog Post
My final installment of happiness blog posts will be focusing on a discussion question related to chapters 7-9 in our Bertrand Russell readings of 'The Conquest of Happiness.' The question deals with the emotion that most leads to my sense of a 'good life.' Which emotions contribute most and least to 'the good life' for you? Who's your homunculus-in-chief - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger....?" I remember Prof. Oliver talking about the movie 'Inside Out' which is what correlated perfectly with this question. Describing my self, I would have to say that for the most part, the leader of my emotions is very much happiness. I was always labeled a cheery and funny guy and still to this day keep this positive and happy aspect of thought in my life. I don't want to see like I'm complaining, but I do believe this emotion taking hold is very much due to the fact that many unhappy things have happened in my life since I was young, but I always thought more about the happiness and gratefulness I had to be alive and living. Whenever something happened to me that would make a person sad, of course I would go through my period of anger or sadness, but at the end of the day (figuratively) I would realize that there will be more days and more uplifting moments as well and I would be able to recover and continue on with a genuine happiness. I am not religious at all, but I do believe in some spiritual aspect of life, or basically that some things may happen but they will lead to other things, no matter the emotion attached. Basically, happiness has always been present in my mind, even during times of sadness, and I think that has led to an overall happiness that I maintain throughout each day.
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Congrats on winning the lottery. Keep on seeing the glass half full - and make mine a double!
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, there is a sober challenge to the constitutional optimist that he/she may lack a full appreciation of "the tragic sense of life," that accounts for others' inability to share the optimism. It's important to acknowledge all the half-empty (and fully-empty) glasses, while still enjoying the contents before you. That's part of the art of living, and it should come a lot easier to those of us lucky enough not to have to scrap for our lives.