![]() "What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.But you don't do either. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. I'm not Buddhist, I just appreciate the teachings, like I do other beliefs. I'm not even sure any of this makes sense to anybody, it took a very long time for it to even make sense to myself. In your sentence, replacing "unhappiness" with "trouble" (or "problems") shows that there is no paradox, simply a difference in scope(s) of understanding. I honestly don't think "unhappiness" should even be a word, there is "sadness", but even that is not a direct antonym of "happiness". Subsequently (and hopefully not being too pedantic) I don't think there is any paradox here, simply a misunderstanding on your part. > One of the many paradoxes is that if you accept unhappiness and just get on with the job, greater happiness can follow. The subject has evidently been discussed ad nauseam, but I think Buddhism covers the basics really well. No real advocate of the pursuit of happiness has ever believed that life was inherently happy, however most think that life provides the conditions and the tools to make it happen. Real happiness is deep-rooted, it isn't swayed easily, nor is it a direct consequence of transient events. Confusing the two is seeing the forest for the trees, like assuming sex is the same as love. ![]() I'm under the impression, possibly wrongly, that a lot of people confuse instant gratification with happiness. I agree that there has been a sickening amount of "feel-good" propaganda in the relatively recent past, in no small part thanks to the movie industry, but please note that this "feel-good" tendency and the true pursuit of happiness are two completely different things. I like both 1984 and BNW, for different reasons, so my comment is not directly related to those books I'm simply growing somewhat frustrated of "happiness as an end-goal" being perceived as wrong, and that's certainly not the point either of those books were trying to make.
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