Do you think that people are capable of finding happiness, or are they always searching for something beyond what they have?
The conventional wisdom that happiness can be achieved is gradually wearing away these days and it has become no more than mere platitude. Most of us are brought up believing that happiness is attainable and that it is only at the tip of our fingers and that we only have to make that sudden leap to attain it, but the reality is merely a distorted notion that somehow finds meaning in the pursuit of what most of us eagerly seek. And even when we gain what we seek we are quickly left wanting more.
For instance, around 6 months ago I got a new laptop that I begged my brother to buy. I had asked him that because all of my friends had gotten theirs and I was the only one left without any. The moment he told me that he would buy me one and send it to me within two months was one that I will never forget. Every day after that I was thinking of what my laptop would look like, what kind of processor it would have, it’s speed, memory space, etc. I was like this till the day that I got it. I constantly obsessed over it, and on January 25, 2015 it arrived. It was beyond my expectations: a red hp laptop with Celeron processor. I was ecstatic.
But after a few months I found out that there were faster and more powerful computers out there, and I asked myself why I asked for this. I could have asked for a brand new Microsoft tablet or whatever new that was in the market and so on.
This experience thought me that I can never achieve true happiness in what I am looking for and that I will most probably be blind-sided by the new gadget that is going to hit the market. It was the pursuit of getting the laptop that I was addicted to and not the actual object. And once I had gotten it I wanted more. So it goes to say that true happiness is just an illusion.