Through my eyes

If happiness is your pursuit, adventure is a MUST!

"I think therefore I am", is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. "I feel, therefore I am" is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable selfSuffering is the university of egocentrism." Milan Kundera, "Immortality"

One can argue that suffering is the basis of the self, but it does not follow that consideration of suffering selves, should be the basis of society. Many of us are in pain, most can't do anything about this pain. As we struggle through our daily lives, doing the best we can to make it in this tough political, social and economical climate, we must look at ourselves and ask the question, 'What is it that we really want out of this suffering '

Life is just way too full of suffering and lost potential, and this is keeping our populous from developing psychologically and becoming mature, genuine world citizens. People are hurt and afraid at a subtle psychological level - and are therefore self-absorbed, incapable of taking on larger perspectives and incapable of acting upon the very real long-term risks that are threatening our global civilization. We must therefore, at all costs, make the world population much, much happier in the deepest sense of the word.

The suffering and stunted development of our people is not individual concern, but the matters of utmost importance to society as a whole. Mylacking human development blocksyourpossible human development. My lack of understanding of you, your needs and perspectives, hurts you in a million subtle ways. I become a bad mother, a bad colleague, a bad human being. We are interconnected: youcannot get away frommyhurt and wounds. They will follow you all of your life - I could be your mother-in-law, your belligerent neighbour from hell. And you will never grow wings, because there will always be a mean boss, misunderstanding family member and envious friends. And you will tell yourself that is how life must be.

There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of life...Getting back up is living...Have a great life.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling.