Comments on: What Makes Us Happy?…………. http://roadsassy.com/2009/05/what-makes-us-happy/ The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. Fri, 04 May 2012 17:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: ligneus1 http://roadsassy.com/2009/05/what-makes-us-happy/#comment-3653 ligneus1 Fri, 15 May 2009 03:47:33 +0000 http://roadsassy.com/?p=5329#comment-3653 Zot, I agree with you but the article in question ranges well beyond the question itself. And sometimes our choices are constrained by circumstances and then the question becomes why are some unhappy and others not in view of those circumstances. To take that to its extreme there is Victor Frankl who survived Auschwitz who wrote, 'The final human freedom, to choose how we react to the circumstances we find ourselves in'. This in examining why some survived and others didn't. Comes back to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer" rel="nofollow">Serenity Prayer</a>: God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. Zot, I agree with you but the article in question ranges well beyond the question itself. And sometimes our choices are constrained by circumstances and then the question becomes why are some unhappy and others not in view of those circumstances. To take that to its extreme there is Victor Frankl who survived Auschwitz who wrote, ‘The final human freedom, to choose how we react to the circumstances we find ourselves in’. This in examining why some survived and others didn’t. Comes back to the Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

]]> By: Zot http://roadsassy.com/2009/05/what-makes-us-happy/#comment-3652 Zot Fri, 15 May 2009 03:37:55 +0000 http://roadsassy.com/?p=5329#comment-3652 What makes us happy? I would say the freedom to make our own choices and live for ourselves (and family if we have any) and create our own destiny. It is a freedom that is rapidly fading thanks to the cancer of socialism that has been spreading through this country's moral cultural body since the 1920s. More and more, we are being conditioned to work and live for everyone else, reduced to the status of worker ant who is expendable if sacrifice is what the collective demands. What makes us happy? I would say the freedom to make our own choices and live for ourselves (and family if we have any) and create our own destiny.

It is a freedom that is rapidly fading thanks to the cancer of socialism that has been spreading through this country’s moral cultural body since the 1920s. More and more, we are being conditioned to work and live for everyone else, reduced to the status of worker ant who is expendable if sacrifice is what the collective demands.

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