The Quest For A Happy Life (a philosophy artwork)

The Quest For A Happy Life

by ben yosaf aperitif

 

 

 

Where do we go to find happiness?  Is there a happiness-depot, or a happiness-factory, or a happiness-shop?

If we could reach out or go to a certain tangible place, and then be happy, how much would that be worth our time?

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Yet, happiness comes from inner-searching and inner-strength and inner-aspirational-aims.

We come to happiness in our lives, and the journey to obtain it is hard and there is obstacles and hardships on the way there to conquer and overcome.

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Two of the central questions we need to tackle to achieve a truly happy life is— what is the purpose of life and what is the meaning of life.

Purpose is an action-oriented understanding.

Meaning is a descriptive enterprise.

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Without having a clear life-purpose and a clear life-meaning, happiness eludes us

On the contrary, for those of us with good grip and harnessing in terms of the purpose of our life and with crystalline-vision regarding the meaning of our life, happiness is in our hands as we continue on our walk through the paths of life.

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When one obtains a life full of purpose and meaningfulness, one ascends to the heights of true happiness and true fulfillment; when the inputs of purpose and meaningfulness are made indelible, permanent, and staunch— she has arrived at true and lasting fulfillment.

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We achieve purpose in intentional, important endeavors and strivings we take up.  By aiming to accomplish feats and make forward progress in imperative areas of importance, the centrality of good living is underscored.  We do not feel is though we have purpose or purposeful action in petty deeds.  When we prioritize paramount and deep-seated good action, this is when we see we have a purpose-driven life.

What is the meaning, without an area invested in purpose-driven life?  Are we to waste our time in disarray and needless iotas, we do not feel as though our life is structured in good resolution and colorful arrays of pigments.  Though, when we push forth to carry out good deeds that are loving and compassionate, selfless and heartfelt, noble and thoughtfully-provoking— it is in this time when we feel we are living lives that are structured on an edifice of purpose and importance.

And, because we can reel into this noble endeavored life, we have a good sense of meaning.  Our time is well-used.  Our time is good in all that it is worth, because we achieve beautiful and loving accomplishments, feats, achievements, efforts, and aims (Luke 6:20-23).

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This is the beginning of being of true happiness and true fulfillment— to use one’s life in terms of integral purposive results and to bask in the meaning derivative of such.  As we aim to carry out good actions, we can find beautiful ways of being well-off in our good life.  We can feel as though we are doing well in what we strive for, because it is good and important, noble and righteous.  We can aim for good things and feel as though we are living a life that is on the perfect track for us, roundabouts the best we can do and with optimistic outlook and good gears forward.

With a life where you can see what you are up to truly matters and truly resounds in goodness, one can have a true sense of happiness and fulfillment.

Things make you happy and make you feel good and make you feel, at times, ebullient, at other times glad and full of cheer— because you are living a life that is purpose-driven, meaningful, and focused on things of import and excellence.

We can feel inflated with gladness and joy, when we have purpose-driven lives, that we characterize as true happiness, which reflects the loving and righteous kinds of paths we take.

We can feel wholesome and great in who we are when we focus on what we are doing with great accent and intent to find ourselves living lives that make us proud and glorious for our hard-efforts and triumphs, that we characterize as true fulfillment.

We can navigate to a life-security and a life-trajectory that (though there are bumps, pitfalls and obstacles that may befall our path) makes us ensured that we will carry on living this greatness of life.  This brings about true and lasting fulfillment.

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We meander and mosey along through life and encounter falling upon a promise of a happy and peaceful afterlife in union with God.  How transient and arbitrary would our time on earth belong, if we were not able to look back at it with good eyesight and in a proud state for our good accomplishments and our good virtue?  In our life, we can be good people with integrity doing good deeds and good endeavors and projects that defines us in great esteem, virtue, and success.  We are here with all our neighbors that share with us this beautiful planet, our friends who share our time and stories and efforts with, and our family who is close to us and there with us all the way.  We have endless potential and endless freedom.