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Looking at circumstances of life, pleasant and adverse, and looking at people, agreeable and strange, I ask, 'Given all this, what can one do to be happy?' I observe, we don't have to spend all our lives tussling with problems, if we can elevate ourselves to a plane of thought, where these problems don't apply. The posts here are an attempt to help transcend ourselves to that plane.
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Would u mind exploring this a little further
Time spent doing something enjoyable is obviously worth it. Somethings that are not enjoyable maybe worth doing because they are productive and yield enjoyable results. For eg. you may not enjoy waiting in a queue but doing this may get you a ticket to a show that you enjoy a lot. But at times people end up doing things that fall into neither of these categories. They sleep when they don't need rest, and talk when they really have nothing to say and the people before them don't want to hear. They add no value to your life. So effectively, instead of doing these things you can advance your death by the same time and it would've made little difference. The intention here is to show the importance of the limited time we have in our lives and how we must always keep our eyes open to make sure we are spending it usefully.
That's quite an insight.
But if my idea of doing something enjoyable is destructive and causes harm to the world, would that also mean that it is 'obviously worth it'?
Harming others for one's own enjoyment is selfish and the world has its own ways of punishing such people. However, in this context, it doesn't have the same effect as advancing your death.
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