Monday, September 29, 2008
The H word
Happiness? i stopped thinking this was an attribute of this life. But i do believe in another. I believe it's a necessity, a scientific must. That life after life; where veils fall and the real story is known, where deeds are coupled with intentions, where perceptions give way to truth, where immortality replaces time, where absolute replaces relative, where happiness replaces joy, where peace replaces patience. I am so longing for it
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not happy here.... not happy there..
All depends on how we define happiness. Happiness here might be satisfaction, hope, but with a great deal of patience.
Happiness here is a means. It is defined in terms of other meanings.
Happiness there is an end. It is the fulfillment that leaves no room for "want." It is the peace that leaves no room for "hope."
It's the difference between the relative and the absolute. When future gives way to present, and when all that exists is a big NOW.
There is no definition for happiness. Very relative. If you close your eyes and recall the moments when you were 'happy', it wont exceed 2 minutes.... and you even wont feel 'happy' recalling them. Maybe peace. Maybe agony.
I guess. It does not exist.
So you are right it is not an attribute of this life. But I may add, nor of the after life.
After life it is peace of not 'wanting' anything or looking forward or backward to anything.
Happiness has to exist. Just as beauty, fairness, and all other ideals. If they don't exist, they wouldn't have existed in our language.
How good is it to know there is something called happiness, but that we can only pursue it? How can we know we can aproach perfection but never achieve it? What does it mean to know we can only aproach fairness, but we cannot attain it in full?
What does it mean that we know something called absolute, but we know we cannot have it? Something called objectivity but we cannot achieve it?
We know enough to know there is another episode in the story. We know enough.
But then for those who don't know, there is belief ...
" ... wa amma alatheen so3edo fa fee ra7mat ELLAH hom feeha khaledoon."
... and there will remain a majority who neither know nor believe.
You? I think you know and believe.
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