What is the solution to all problems in life?
How can we have a happy life?
It is my personal opinion that we can have a happy life by following our own thoughts and desires with no obedience to the structure and demands of contemporary society.
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Thank you very much.
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If you live long enough, you’ll realize what most of the rules are for. What you describe as “no obedience to the structure and demands of contemporary society” is a nice way of saying anarchy.
But hey, if your time on this earth can trump thirty thousand years of accumulative history, then by all means, follow your dreams with no regard to the culture we’ve built with the blood, sweat and tears of our forefathers. I’ll see you in Disney Land.
Adaptability, self-sufficiency, and self-love.
Love. Love is all you need.
I think the solution it to realize that there is no solution.
Life is joy. And sadness. And everything in between. Accept it.
A mentally stable, compassionate, honorable person could easily be happy without obedience to the structure and demands of contemporary society because they would automatically conduct themselves in a socially acceptable manner.
A rebellious, defiant, unstable personality who deliberately flouts all convention and rules would not be happy.
Death. Sorry, but it’s true. It’s selfish and cowardly because a lot of people have to take on your problems.
Life is relative and abstract. It means differently to the 7 billion humans inhabiting this world. There’s no sole solution to its problems.
Defining ‘happiness’ is an age-old challenge.
Rousseau (Republic) defined it as ‘pleasure, and the absence of pain’.
He goes on to describe the social contract, and our understanding of it and abiding by it, as key to happiness in civilized society. This definitely does Not ignore “structure and demands of contemporary society”
Yoga Vedanta (the philosophical system, not the Hindi religion) defines a successful philosophical system as one that brings peace of mind. This also tends to Not ignore “structure and demands of contemporary society”. Behaving contrary to laws is granted only where there is an honest moral conflict with them (i.e. not just convenience).
Your grandmother was right when she said “When you have your health, you have everything.”
Stop giving a shit. No easy feat.
I’ve always tried to stick to the four “re’s”
Respect, restraint, relax…...and remain amused….
The hippies tried it but it didn’t work out.
Accountability of one’s self combined with empathy for others – if these qualities were taught and reinforced by society, many of our issues would diminish.
Clean water and a warm bed/meal.
Change?
1. If you have a chance to change the choice, change it.
2. If you have changed(unwillingly), wait for a chance to re-select your choice(willingly.)
3. If you don’t get any chance, change will be your choice.
4. If you have lost the chance, change is the only chance you have.
Expect the worst but hope for the best.
Do what you can.
Don’t do what you shouldn’t.
After a difficult day, have a GOOD beer. Don’t chug it, sit back and enjoy it slowly.
The ocean is the ultimate solution.
@mattbrowne: I have my suspicions that it is an alternate account of another Fluther member; but what do you mean by a “real” user?
@hearkat – Well, no response so far in this thread. Plus the details section looks a bit like someone’s testing the reaction of our community… Just a feeling. I could be wrong.
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