Saturday, October 15, 2005

Contentment with fleeting happiness

15th October 2005

Happiness is a mind game.Even achieving your greatest dream can only lead to temporary euphoria because the brain cannot humanly sustain it's elevated feel-good state for an indefinite time.

I came to this conclusion after reading a Times(UK) article on happiness and related scientific discovery and research results.

The crux of the matter is that whether we get it from sex, money,attaining our life objectives or companionship(NOT in my order of priority, I must add*chuckle* ), human beings are wired to take these for granted after a while. I suppose it could be a mechanism for ensuring that struggle and conflict remain motivators for homo sapiens to improve further and in doing so, ensure their own survival.

For me, once I swore off companionship, happiness had to be internally generated.

Sure, when the blissfully contented state wore off, I got depressed. But I always recovered with some strategically timed intakes of chocolate, bananas and other serotonin-sparking foods.

I like eating, by the way......a lot!

Believe it or not, staying happy for as long as possible is becoming more and more crucial as my life story unfolds. Right now, I'm writing songs to keep myself contented(contentment being what I equate to to happiness for now, happiness being such an ethereal, indefinable quality)


My strategy to stay contented nowadays is to occupy myself in some form of productive pursuit: writing a story, weaving a piece of music with my mic-equipped headphones or figuring out the next great stock play or speculation.

I have spent some hours online and in the new National Library consulting technical analysis and charting books and have narrowed down good candidates for a punt involving $10k: Creative Technology covered warrants, Midas Holdings or Surface Mount Technology.

Wish me luck!

(And I'll update you on my progress so keep reading...)



For all those who have recently broken up with someone else, here are some lyrics from ABBA in one of their early songs 'Another town ,another train':

Day is dawning and I must go
You’re asleep but still I’m sure you’ll know
Why it had to end this way

You and I had a groovy time
But I told you somewhere down the line
You would have to find me gone
I just have to move along

Just another town, another train
Waiting in the morning rain
Look in my restless soul, a little patience
Just another town, another train
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations

When you wake I know you’ll cry
And the words I wrote to say goodbye
They won’t comfort you at all
But in time you will understand
That the dreams we dreamed were made of sand
For a no-good bum like me
To live is to be free

Just another town, another train
Waiting in the morning rain
Look in my restless soul, a little patience
Just another town, another train
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations
Guess I will spend my life in railway stations

Lesson: Never go into a relationship thinking a person will be the heart and soul of your life- people are unpredictable and only you can free yourself to be happy

1 Comments:

Blogger Alphonsus said...

do you play a muscial instrument?

2:44 AM  

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