The misery of not being happy.

 The misery of not being happy.

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When a person in a democratic society compares himself to everyone around him, he is proud to know that he is equal to anyone else. But when he sees himself compared to all of his fellow human beings or to a huge organization, he is immediately overwhelmed by the knowledge of his individual worthlessness and vulnerability.

In this way, equality brings two emotions at the same time.

One is that they are all equal. All people are legally equal and are alike in practice.

Another emotion is the feeling that an individual is powerless or worthless. In a democratic society, everyone has to stand alone against everything in an equal individual. This sense of helplessness makes you care about what others are doing, that is, sensitive to public opinion. In a democratic society, it is sometimes more reassuring to follow public opinion. It is justified that I can do it because other people do it, and I am bound by the general will of public opinion.

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One of the distinctive features of the democratic era is that everyone wants to succeed without effort and seeks spontaneous pleasure. This phenomenon is common to all people, and the same is true for intellectuals. Most of those who live in an age of equality are full of ambitious, eager and effortless ambitions. In other words, they want to achieve huge immediate success, but they want to avoid hard work. These conflicting tendencies appear directly in the pursuit of general concepts. In other words, they boast that by using this general concept, they can grasp huge objects without much effort and at the same time attract the public's attention without much difficulty. But it cannot be said that they are wrong to think so. This is because readers of books also dislike researching and researching to the bottom of things. What is generally pursued as a research result is simply pleasure and information obtained without effort.

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People want to become rich, but in the face of the reality that it is difficult to become rich, people rely on common concepts.

A general concept is an abstract noun. The more abstract it is from the concrete, the more general it becomes.

Busy people who can't afford to think depend on abstract words and fall into the illusion that they know or possess them. There is a feeling of defining existence with words.

Highly general concepts such as politics, economy, culture, world, and peace, that is, abstract nouns, dominate many parts of our modern life. Without realizing it, we are forgetting our reality in highly abstract nouns.

One of these general concepts and representative is happiness. Happiness is rarely defined. It seems to contain everything, but if you look closely, you can't find anything satisfying about it. This is a characteristic of abstract nouns.

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Among the many general concepts, why is the concept of happiness particularly prominent in our eyes?

This is because happiness is a general concept with characteristics of the democratic era and has another characteristic, pleasure.

Happiness is based on pleasure. Therefore, it may be no wonder that happiness, which is a combination of the general concept derived from democracy and the pleasure derived from utilitarianism, becomes a widespread term in this age.

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And there are other reasons why happiness is widely circulated. This is because, among the general concepts that apply to 'everyone', there is no more popular than happiness. They wish for success and work hard, but they desire and strive for politics, but very few people achieve it.

Compared to success or politics, happiness is much more popular because it is a general concept that anyone can enjoy.

This is the reason why miscellaneous happy merchants can survive and thrive.

Happy merchants know. That the market for happiness is wider than success.

When it comes to happiness, everyone has something to say, and anything you say works. Everyone has their own secret to happiness. In this age, if you are not happy, you can think that something is wrong.

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Only God and a few lucky children could enjoy happiness in life on this earth. But today, not only do they think that anyone can achieve happiness, but they also expect happiness for granted. Therefore, many people are suffering from a disease unique to modern times, 'the unhappiness of unhappiness'.

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Sometimes I feel and think it's a happy moment, but the details are still not alive. Because happiness is a general concept. People often forget that happiness is a general concept that has no concrete content. So the bluebird says there is, happiness is nearby. But the thirst is not quenched. Because the general concept is not satisfied. Nevertheless, in this age, happiness sweeps over everything.

It may be 'real', but none of the details are very real, so it's not real.

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Good and bad luck should not be abstracted.

The more we obscure the standard of happiness, the more happiness we find in the standard we find in the world will always be tomorrow.

Concentrate on concrete and detailed happiness, the happiness within you, and live in the present moment.

My happiness can only be defined and only found by me.

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