放下。
是忘了，没时间思考，还是无奈？
Sometimes I wonder if I am born with the mind of a rebel.
Sometimes I am just utterly disgusted by how societal norms have shaped people's minds.
Having money and status doesn't give one the right to control people.
Having beauty and brawn doesn't mean one is more attractive than the others.
What's even more frustrating is that people are conforming to these, fueling more cases of injustice.
If you think you can control people just because of your higher position, you are only half right.
Because those people who can be controlled by you are the fair-weathered bootlickers who can just as easily trounce on you when you are down one day.
If you think you can attract more people just because of better appearance, you are also only half right.
Because those who are attracted to you are superficial suitors who can change their hearts as easily because they only know love as deep as the skin is.
Self-proclaimed gurus who declare working towards a higher societal status and the perfect bod represents success in career and relationships are totally mind-boggling.
What comes first?
Success or happiness?
To paraphrase, is success an indicator of happiness or happiness is an indicator of how successful you are?
It is obviously the latter.
Much have been said about how wealthy people do not feel happy, the most wealthiest nation in the world is (surprising ly?) not the happiest.
Happiness, of course is related to contentment.
Why?
Simply because there are endless material pursuits and countless temptations in the modern world.
It all depends on how much you need to be contented.
And when is the day when you finally decided, I am thankful that I have all that I need, and do not have all that I don't need.
It all boils down to the individual.
Hence, happiness really, comes from within.
You don't need someone or something to feel happy.
Well, you might say that I am wrong.
After all, when I see that someone or when I lay my hands on something, I feel happy, ecstatic, euphoria.. whatever level of happiness that is.
But have you ever thought about how temporal the happiness was?
I used to feel happy seeing him/her.. now not so much.
I used to wear this pair of shoes everyday, until I got bored of it.
Probably sounds familiar.
Clearly, the happiness brought to you wasn't lasting.
It could be even worse, when you fail to get what you want, and it caused you misery instead.
True happiness, as what I have learned from my religion, isn't as fleeting as this.
True, eternal happiness is attainment of enlightenment.
However, attaining enlightenment is indeed very profound and difficult to understand.
Before I get to understand, I suppose, we should always try to find the source of happiness within ourselves, and from what we have, or had.
The sort of happiness that nobody can take it away from us and nothing can affect us.
