Happiness Where Are You
“Man must not be indifferent to the people who move around him, rather he must also be cognizant of the suffering which move around him”
– The author, Happiness Where Are You
Aristotle placed eudemonia the greatest priority of the human person. He names it as the end of which each man should strive for. All actions should be directed to it yet he cautions that hasty acts should be e done and that the pursuit of eudemonia should be accompanied by the golden mean by which man determines what the excess of an action and what are the defects so as to situate himself better closer and closer and finally to the eudemonia. I would like to focus perhaps on the two questions which would lead a person to inquire deeper in to happiness to which he engages at the moment. The first question is that can happiness be attained in this earth? Second, is that what attitude should we have towards this happiness.
Man is always is search for more. He searches for what is in, as exemplified in the current life style which a person lives in the present see for example the pace technology has played in the life of every individual to the point of espousing the “throw-away culture”- imagine how fast we change our mobile phone-which is deeply rooted in the materialistic view of the world. Yet the current condition may well be said only to be misdirected condition which is still in potency be further through the rectification of the attention of mass to what is the object of their longing. Man’s search for the great is greatly associated with their amusement with pleasure. Distinction must be drawn clearly to the mass that there is happiness which are terminal, whose objects are terminal objects also and happiness that is that eternal itself. Losing the balance of attention given to the terminal happiness and Eternal is what permeates society now. Man is confused, since the immediacy of happiness which the world offers is seemingly more viable it is what is grabbed by man. Yet this is not to be so yes worldly pleasures and happiness are essential to the life of man but the point of view is that it should man to the Greater happiness which awaits his recognition.
The second question is the attitude one must have in dealing with happiness. Two things must keep in mind when dealing with happiness. First man must not be indifferent and second he must humble.
Man must not be indifferent to the people who move around him, rather he must also be cognizant of the suffering which move around him. Man have the tendency to busy himself with personal salvation and conservation, and in the process leave other in the mirth of their own sinfulness and sufferings. Suffering is not to be left it must be embraced along with the people who bear, but it must not stop there, for after seeing, feeling and dwelling in their suffering man must determine as to when the moment of alleviation of suffering must take place.
Suffering is not to be left it must be embraced along with the people who bear it.”
-The author, Happiness Where Are You”
The second point is that the humility should pervade man, for it is in humility that man will finally be able to embrace the incompleteness of his being, that even if the search goes day by day and that the daily dose of happiness and laughter, it is still incomparable to the great ocean of happiness from which these springs of happiness come from. Upon recognition of man’s incompleteness then man may eventually be the filled by grace which he lacks.
“It is in humility that man will finally be able to embrace the incompleteness of his being.”
The author, Happiness Where Are You
Man may be happy in this world, in this life yet not perfectly, he may be so disillusioned of the pleasures of this world that he might lose the notion that the world is passing and that there will come a time that what he lavishly enjoyed would no longer sustain his appetite nor promote his good or the good of those around him. This is why we ought to develop attitudes of sensitivity towards the suffering of others that we may commiserate and alleviate their sufferings through mutual recognition of our emptiness and deficiencies which needs fulfilment by the source of all happiness who is Happiness Himself, God.
