Drunkiness and the Meaning of Life

[jamesq]

I'm drunk. I'm listening to TED talks. I've just finished watching Life on Mars.

I'm in a weird little zone between happy and melancholy. It's odd. I should be one or the other, but I find myself drifting slowly between them.

On the one hand, I'm happy in my solitude. But then I think about being with someone. It would be nice to have someone to cuddle with right now. It's not to be though.

Conversely, I ran today and I had a pleasant afternoon eating food down at Eau Claire. I watched a cool show this week. I did several good deeds this week. I leveraged small efforts on my part into huge changes for my friends. This pleases me.

Continuing the happy/melancholy feeling I think my fate is to simply make my friend's lives better at the expense of my own. Which is not to say that I'm sacrificing anything, only that personal happiness is not my fate and I must always experience happiness second hand, through helping those around me.

Is that good enough? It's good enough I guess.'

I'm not too coherent now, hopefully I make some kind of sense. I'm off to bed now. Sweet dreams everyone.

Comments

[ashti25.livejournal.com]

Happiness isn't something that falls on you, IF you're lucky, like rain or whatever.

Happiness is something you can achieve, or learn to construct ....

Waiting around for happiness to fall on you is like waiting around for mad archery skillz to fall on you.

-- from someone who doesn't know you personally, but who got a lot happier when she stopped waiting for the happiness fairy to arrive.

[jamesq]

Hard work and perseverance are certainly necessary to success, but they are not sufficient - luck is also needed. I'm sure you yourself know people who have worked hard to achieve goals who have been ultimately unsuccessful.

I don't think that the acknowledgment of this fact makes me defeatist. I'm still working to make myself a better person and also to improve my physical appearance - I haven't given up on either of those tasks.

[petranef.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you need to redefine "personal happiness?"

[jamesq]

That's what I'm trying to do. That pesky sense of hope keeps getting in the way.

[petranef.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* I give up.......