Pursuit of Happiness
Every bit of happiness is only a moment that we ponder over before moving on to a next state. Little do we know about our own selves. One can just dive deep down and hit rock bottom from the pinnacle of success. It takes only a couple of seconds to do so. But the point we try to reach and we think will give us a pure form of joy takes a lot of doing. One can lose himself solely into thinking about aiming for that point. Targets — some people center themselves around it. Although some may feel like it’s a necessity to set them and work towards it, but truth be told, those can act equally as trap doors. It’s like you are letting yourself to be engrossed by that fact. For those who revolve around these, it’s like you are the puppet, and the “target” is the puppet master. Only the irony is that, you yourself made him the puppet master!
Another crucial mistake some people make is associating themselves with a single person. You just cannot hope to get all of your happiness from that single human being. If you do so, then you’re living in a fool’s world. You wouldn’t want a person monitoring your each and every move. That’s toxicity. All you’ll end up from that is the least amount of happiness. The pursuit of chasing it should be free. Not at the cost of something. Only then will it leave an ever lasting expression on yourself. It’s the little bits that one should cherish, instead of just fixating yourself on some big event.
In the end, you have to start from scratch all over again. Once you have gone through this process a couple of times, you’ll surely figure it out that it’s the small pieces that build up and stay with you as memories. You’ll even forget what the end result was at one point, or what targets you were aiming for. But that leads us back to square one. It’s just another moment and will fly by. Then how do we seek for permanent happiness?
The answer is really simple, we cannot possess an ideal state for a long period of time. We shouldn’t aim for it as well. For if it stayed too long, then it would just be something like a person without pulse. It would just be a constant state. Sudden joyful leaps would no longer feel joyous because you’ll be doing that all the time. So, these repetitive actions will not cause a shift in momentum, since it will happen in a short span of time.
Some things are best kept the way it is. Trying to control it, or give it an artificial touch won’t generate natural feelings or emotions towards it. What it will generate is a bubble where you’ll be trapped. As long as you don’t hamper the natural causes, you won’t get affected. The moment you try and make something out of the norm to gain something suited to your needs, that’s the time when this invisible shield will pop up. Your actions would come back to hit you in a form you couldn’t possibly expect could ever happen to you. Trapped in an “infinite tsukuyomi”. Only difference is that you wouldn’t live in your best possible state of happiness.
Peace would become non-existent. Achieving and attaining power will fuel your desires making you even less controlled. Ultimately, you’ll end up losing your consciousness. Unable to distinguish love, succumbing to the numbness inside will take over. A state of void. Any act of goodness will be looked down upon by you at that time. End result — a completely shattered person. From the peak to the trough in a flash. The time span of the sequence of events, seen from a perfectly normal perspective would seem like a lot. But to the person going through all these would feel like nano seconds.
It’s a fine delicate balance between happiness and the void. One step either side can wreck havoc. Maybe getting the best of both worlds would perhaps be the solution which can only be obtained by walking on the fine line called LIFE.