Degree of happiness by Betrand Russell

Degree of happiness

Everyone deserves to get the true happiness

Who don’t want get the happiness in their life? Can someone please tell me who? I bet no one will say no to happiness right? For Betrand Russell, a British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate, which is the author of the book entitled “The Conquest of Happiness”, happiness are sort into two types that is open to human being and the other to those who can read and write. 

In my point of view, this passage means that the happiness is depends on a person oneself to define what kind of happiness they get and how they reach it. He stated in his article that artists are less happy than men of science. That is because for a painter, if the public did not understand what is the meaning hidden behind the painting their effort is meaningless. They will feel so down if their works didn’t get appreciation from others. 

Meanwhile, for men of science they will still be happy with their life even though the public did not understand their work because their work still been using till today especially if they managed to discover new things. For me, what is stated by Betrand are more to personal opinion about happiness and it’s not true at all. 

This is because we can’t judge someone’s happiness by their occupation or either they success or fail on doing something. Even a mad man also knew how to make they feel happy so same goes to us. Most of people said that happiness is a precious and can buy with money. Yes it’s true but do we can reach the peak of happiness if we can’t make others feel happy? To make other people happy is an investment and investment need some money. 

Let’s say a son crying because ask his father to buy the toy so to make his son happy the father must fulfill son’s need right? No matter how much cost of the toy. In the nutshell, money also is one of the ways to get the happiness. Remember, everyone can get their endless happiness by their own way because it’s belonging to everyone.

Thinking Folly by Eckhart Tolle

Thinking folly

We less using our brain because we fear to fail

“Thinking Folly” is an article that has written by a talented writer and a contemporary spiritual teacher named Eckhart Tolle. He stated that via thinking it can be a disease to us. I’m not on his side or object him but in my opinion, his statement can be wrong and can be true. As for me myself, we must think deeply no matter what before we do something so that we are not slip up. We can’t our mind from thinking of something. 

Our life journey also was shaped based on our think a lot of things. Why we do that? Because we don’t want to regret in the future because of something that caused by our wrong decision before. We should grateful because we are different with another creature. We have mind and able to think then decided what’s right and what’s wrong or else we are in the same boat with animal or plant because they do not own this miracle gift that we call as a mind. 

On the other hand, we are easily cheated by our own mind. Let’s say everyone scare to ghost in the darkness but when they are in bright place do they still in scare? Ask yourself why this happen? This is because they are controlled by their mind. In the darkness their mind will said that there are ghost everywhere that is why they will feel uneasy and scare while in bright place the set their mind that there is nothing to scare so we safe. 

Think is a good to get the best result of something but on one time we think a lot of things until our brain become so snarl-up how could we think rationally? That’s why Eckhart stated that thinking can be a disease.