About Me — Bandoro Gunarso

Me and my pursuit of happiness

This is the heck I’m all about: A young lad who’s carried away, tremendously, by the science of happiness.

It was ‘the yearning for a happy life’ that first brought me into this realm. But let me be clear, my writings aren’t supposed to tackle it as stereotypically.

Motivation can be boring, truth is not. And as far as I’m concerned, nothing resembles the truth more than science did. So here I’ll use scientific instruments — such as psychology, neuroscience, or evolutionary psychology — to jazz up, primarily, the topic of happiness.

I once had a dream, I wanted to be happy all the time; nothing more important than happiness; hence it’s the utmost virtue to raise happiness through the roof. Sure this was a noble idea, but it’s also foolish at best.

Happiness is neither the whole nor the most important aspect of existence. It is the ‘good part’ for god-sake, but what is ‘good’ anyway without its sibling of ‘not-good’ in the first place? How one ought to understand peace without a clue for what is chaos? Can you love being ‘loved’ when you haven’t been ‘not-loved’ in the beginning?

It’s clear to me that to understand happiness, one needs to decipher the role it partakes within the whole of consciousness. This demands one to…