sexta-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2015
I agree that we can have life styles that guide us to happiness. Personally, find happiness is achieved looking at small things and appreciating then, it is about looking even for the negative side of life and trying to take good abstractions, lessons and other opportunities from it. Happiness for me is a matter of perspective and I think we are able to manage our perspectives, meaning that ,yes, we can teach ourselves how to be happy. The old idea of ''look at the positive side of life!''.I like the idea, I think we can teach ourselves happiness, nevertheless I step back when it says that ''do not educate children to be rich''. And if people find happiness with their achievements, with their ambitions, with their bank numbers? If I agree that happiness achievement is subjective, who am I to say that a person can not find the value of things when they find its price? My mom always teached me that certain things were expensive and I should save money and I should not be a consumerist person. We need to take also in account that knowing the prices, at some extent has the mechanism itself of making us valorizing things. And when I say that I am incuding people who become richer and sucessfull afterwards and they learned how to give value for things exactly because they knew what absences of things means. The hard path to get in sucess increased the value they give to things, since they had to work hard for it. I also challenge that notion that I just tryied to anwser (TOK moment): who I am to say that happiness is even necessarily shared when we have to find value in things? (Can't I just watch a single theatre play, for example, that do not have any moral value to teach me and find it funny and relaxing?).
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