Why should I be happy?

One thing that’s always intrigued me is the human pursuit of happiness. Every quote, meme, lifestyle and business guru advert is about how to be ‘happy’, yet with only a little bit of examination we can see that to obtain and maintain the ‘happiness’ being shovelled to us is impossible.

It’s an illusion that society’s manipulators captivate our souls with to keep us unfulfilled and forever chasing their carrot. Life consists of order and chaos and we need the wisdom to accept and deal with both aspects.

All the time that we’re imprisoned in this meat avatar we are bound to experience the entire range of emotions in response to life’s challenges. If life has a point it can’t be to have an easy ride.

Through these challenges we either disintegrate into a mess or we develop an ability to deal with them using our experience, insight and wisdom. I can’t see the point of an easy life gobbling up our ‘prison governor’s’ carrots and bending over for them.

Lao Tsu writes ‘the space between heaven and earth is like a bellows, the shape changes but not the form’.

When we realise that our avatars are all shapes rising and falling from this same form we gain the insight and wisdom of interdependence, and realise that we are born out if this world and not into it and are all parts of the same thing, only then can we act accordingly, treating everything and everyone with the same respect as we do ourselves and find peace within our avatar.

And that is far superior to the ‘happiness sh*t’ that society constantly shovels us.