American History is full of crap.
I don’t think suicide or depression exsisted back in the days of our founding fathers, or else they would’ve known that not everyone is in pursuit to find happiness.
I think people unconsciously look for ways to be unhappy. I mean, they cut themselves off from their family, their friends. They cut up their wrists to watch the blood flow and the pain increase. They drink and drink until they’re so down in the dumps that they put a gun to their head and pull the trigger. They constantly look for ways to make themselves unhappy, and it usually ends up killing them.
But we still look for it, pine for it, make it our only pursuit. Somehow, in the shallow pit of things, we don’t care about being happy anymore, and sometimes Life stops being all about looking for the things that make us happy, and instead it becomes about looking for the things that make us unhappy, the things that we can count on to make our lives miserable, because that meets our expectations.
We expect to find unhappiness. I mean, it is so much easier to find it then it is to find happiness, so much cheaper, so much more convenient.
Maybe everyone is just looking for happiness, but if you never find it, then you’ll always be unhappy. Maybe thats what all those important men were trying to tell us, “pursue happiness all you want, your entitled to it, but I wouldn’t recommend it because you’ll most likely end it up making yourself miserable just searching for it”.
Yeah, I’m sure something along those lives exsists somewhere in the consitution.
I don’t understand history at all, but I know I am not going to pursue happiness, its just not worth it.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Unhappiness“
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It seems to me that many Americans have confused the pursuit of happiness with acquiring material wealth, and becoming filthy rich. Or worse self righteously worshipping some psychotic sky fairy, and then enforcing their twisted moralistic beliefs on the rest of us. Owning, doing or saying absolutely anything you want to cuz it’s your inalienable right to isn’t gonna make you happy either. Well, at least that’s my opinion. And oh yeah I’m fully aware that not all people from the US are like that, I’m not that dumb…
the only emotions that are easy in life are: depression, anger, boredom and jealousy. The best one out of those is depression, why? because anger, boredom and jealousy are somewhat similar to each other: that feeling of a ball stuck in you throat and wanting to beat the shit out of someone and scream like an animal to your head explodes (or is that just me?) or simply just wishing you were somewhere else. Back to why depression (or unhappiness) is the best out of those emotions: it’s a feeling of relaxation, true consciousness because of all the thinking, and unlike boredom you can sit down and do nothing for hours on end except drag yourself down even deeper. It’s easier, yes it’s painful 90 percent of time but you don’t have to do anything to acquire it except let others bring you down. (you sound like a madman… I know, I’ts hard for me to explain this)
I’m not saying I’m picking depression over happiness but it’s better to feel something than nothing. Happiness: the government took it and locked it up, the true happiness that is… I don’t want to work 60 years so I can retire, sit down and finally tell myself… “I’m free”.
It seems your all getting my point.
Good.