Why bother

Fear, loneliness, pain, trapped, lack of hope, all have one thing in common, surrounding yourself with yourself. Happier people can still have fear and pain but if you have hope then you are not feeling alone, and you’re being trapped is something that is seen as only a temporary state.

The first commenter took a shot at people who have religion, those would be people who have hope, and are less lonely because they have their beliefs, and they may likely have community as well, and are less likely to be lonely. Happiness is a drug that the body can make as a hormone like endorphins. Religious beliefs can be like spiritual endorphins, so why put down those people who were able to do something that miserable people have not been able to and are wanting to be able to do. If you are miserable than you can try to see what makes some of these people happier than you are feeling, why place an insurmountable wall between you and that which you are desiring, which is truth, and love.

Is it because you only believe in what you can see? Some people have had near death experience that changed their minds about what is, and what is not. Saint Thomas Quote “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Faith is beyond hope, because it is having sensed but not attained, so there is purpose and direction. For those that have not had experience, they they are likely fall into living in denial, and then not seek what they wish to find, after all, people who have religion are “delusional”, right? With this frame of mind, you leave yourself no way out of depressed life state, because really what you want is to know the truth, and you would like remain in a state of love.

Unless of course you really believe that death is static, nonexistent. In a way, that state may exist nowhere in the universe, but that is a different topic.

Some people in the medical field these days will explain off the near death experience as caused by hypoxia, lack of oxygen in the brain in a low brain wave state. But they prove that wrong all the time in the ER. Hypoxia like all drugs result in less lucid and more delusional state of awareness. The kind of Delusion that would cause a diver at a depth 180′ take out their air mouth piece so as to share some oxygen with the fish, and as a result the diver dies from not breathing air. Yet patiences that have come back from brain flat line for several minutes, licid and able to describe what they saw, in detail, and describe the conversations that took place, even that which took place in the hallway are examples of quite lucid thinking. This is anything but delusional, and the mind can’t function is it is flat line, there is no activity. So awareness is beyond the state matter.

So if you are depressed, and you don’t solve your depression problems by being physically body dead, then what will you do about your state of awareness? You still have a problem you need to deal with somehow, which is How to be Happy, regardless of your problems. People who are in pain are lucky in the way that when the pain is gone then they will be happier, they find relief. In the spirit, your state of thought and awareness is like radio tuner in some sense, you create an awareness around you that reflects your state of mind. Lucky is the person who has beliefs, who when they die believe they will go to heaven, difficult is the journey for the depressed that surounds themselves with themselves who has had no joy, no one to love, no one to care about or for.

Happiness and Spiritual growth go hand in hand, because again your awareness is a little like a radio tuner. Religions cause one to ponder Godly things, the longer one thinks on such things, and seeks answers to questions, then slowly things can get a bit better. You might have conflicts with some religious concepts, okay, take some bits with you as you go, if they begin to help you, the move foreword again. The state of man does not know everything, we don’t get everything perfectly right, but that is no reason to not keep at trying to understand our spiritual state of existence. Going back to Saint Thomas’s quote. Once a person like Saint Thomas has a real experience, they then move beyond your feelings of delusional thinking, they begin to grow in spiritual awareness, they then realize that the real delusional state is that state of man’s thinking.

Don’t surround yourself with yourself. Reach out and help those around you in any way you can that helps them, it’s not about helping you, your getting help comes a little later when you take your mind of yourself and focus on others. Every idiot knows that having lots of money does not make you happy, it can make some things in life a little easier, but it can also make them harder. The question is, what makes you happier. I have not found one religious faith that answers all questions, so keep your mind and heart open. Once you sense the spirit, then know there is more, and then you can’t help but wonder about what more there is to existence, and what it is about. Keep your mind open to change, and step through doors now that you have not in the past, one may lead to temporary joy for you, and being happier, like opening a window so that light can get in. One day you may become a Sun yourself, when you find your lasting joy.

I am not altogether happy, I have big problems, but I have been bless with a few experiences in life that have shown me that there is something more, more the my miserable self that I sometimes make myself out to be. Move forward. Death is not the end, but it is not the answer for your depression, nor mine. Move forward, seek with your heart, above all, stop closing the doors around your that might be the answers you have been looking for. If you don’t find what you are looking for, go looking again. There are no truly happy syndics, the syndical soul is the most close minded of all.