Recently, I have noticed a
movie on TV. It is a pity that I didn’t hit at the very beginning and didn’t
see the name of it. The movie was a bit boring and monotonous, but it was
impossible not to be watching it. The picture was like this: A monk and a young
guy are going up the rocks on the hill. All the way monk tells the guy that
when they reach their destination to the top of the mountain - they see
something quite extraordinary, something supernatural, incredible, but did not
say specifically what it should be. The path to the top is very long and
complicated to go. They are talking about life on different topics... A monk asks the young man:
"Are you happy?" He answers: "Now, we are going such a huge way,
and we will open something amazing. Yes, I am happy." Next, at some point,
monk stops and says: "Well, we have reached the destination." The guy
turns around and asks: "So what? What is incredible?" The look of
monk stops at some stone: "Well, let’s take for example this stone. It's perfect." Man with a disappointed face asks the monk: "And we have walked
for so long only in order to see some common stone. Are you kidding me?" Monk
responded: "But were you happy and did you enjoy the way you overcame?"
This movie made me think over
what true happiness is really about and why some people are unhappy. Many
philosophers and books assert that happiness is manifested only in special
moments and did not stay for long with us. I see happiness as a substance,
abstract and even infinite or recursive process. But as with any process, the "happiness"
process must have some effect (the task, purpose, destiny if you want). While
the young man was going to something unimaginable, to the fact that he wants to
see, he was happy throughout even extremely complicated way. I identify the
place where he was going - like a dream, and his way to the top - happiness.
That is, true happiness is impossible when there is no dream, while the
"dream come true" isn’t so important, because you've already worked this way to a dream, and you are happy. Happiness is not a goal in itself, it is
a movement to it.
So, to be happy, you need to
find a dream to follow the right way and enjoy it.
Why are some people unhappy then?
Don’t they have dreams? If you think so, this is partly true. If you look at
the life of an ordinary person not from a rich family, who is working every day
and hates his job, who stays working at night to feed his children, he gets
tired, he has money just enough to pay for the food and the flat, which he has
been saving all his life... In this situation, the meaning of a person's life –
“Live - to survive”. And unfortunately, it's not uncommon. It’s very difficult
in this situation to find the strength to do something, and in general, to find
the desire even to want something. And in fact, it is a problem. For every
person in the world under all circumstances, no matter how hopeless it may
seem, the potential dream of his life surely exists to open the happiness way if
he looks carefully.
Some kind of person has many
small pleasures in his life, which are forgotten very soon, and all again
continues to be boring. Happy person faces some unpleasant things, happening
frequently, overcomes it soon and continues enjoying his life again.
