0 Deadly Comfort

4.6.2021 Do what it difficult because it makes you stronger and better. People hate difficulties and failures. They try to avoid them all the time. It actually very useful and the real battle ground for human being. Without difficulties, there is no progress. We have to face it voluntarily to get better over time. As long as we know that it doesn't literally kill us, just go for it. The quality of individual depends on the difficulties he has overcome through his life. More is better. Think about comfort, it is more dangerous than hardship. It kills the spirit and dan body at the same time. One becomes weak mentally and physically over time if he stays in his comfort zone all the time. Life is suffering and must be lived willingly. That's the way to be fully human and feel the meaning of life through struggle. When one stop fighting, he stop playing the game of life. It's a game over. It's actually possible to enjoy the whole game full of difficulties. Just keep going and be optimistic. That's how one plays game and how one should live his life. The concrete example, look at someone who constantly exercises versus someone who is constantly on social media and at party eating and drinking. Look at someone who constantly work versus someone who constantly watching netflix. Ask them which one is happier and which one feel that life is meaningful and worth living. You will find that humans love challenges and even meaningful sufferings. Of course not all comfort is deadly, we all love to be comfortable and be happy and peaceful. Being with families and friends, go on vacation, and so on are among the meaningful comforts we aim at. The comfort that doesn't destroy us in the long run. If the comfort gives us immediate short term reward and causing long term serious consequences, just stay away from such comfort. Antisthenes said: "(such) pleasure is not only unnecessary but positive evil."

0 Facing Reality

3.6.2021 Facing Reality It sounds easy. It's not. So many people refuse to face reality, to accept it as it is. When getting sick, they rush to go to a doctor and never look into themselves. Never seek the real cause, the real evil. They just dull the senses and eleviate the pain as soon as possible. Most people don't read books and don't understand the fact, they reality. When they have problems, their first respond is to flight or fight. They don't try to understand the problem and face it as it is. Normally they would blame someone or something for their problems. Sometime they blame fate. In short they are not responsible for the problems. They refuse to look deeper into it. It's painful to find out that they are the cause of the problems. The key of power is understanding. They don't have this. So they are weak and make wrong decisions again and again. They would blame everything else except themselves. Their ignorance is legendary. Fear Every human being feel fear. It becomes the drive of so many decisions they make. People work in an office or company because of fear to live in poverty. They don't work there to be rich. They know it's impossible to get rich by making that decision because what they get is very little, equal to what they give. They just be able to live like others, just enought to pay for daily expences. If they are courageous, they should open their own business. It's risky and they are not ready to face the fear and the risk everyday. They won't get paycheck every month and that seems terrible. It's too complicated and fearful to think for their own improvement everyday to survive, better just dull their senses and escape the fear of risk and get monthly paycheck. In reality, when we face fear everyday, it's not that scary. It will be normal and later natural. We can see deeper into our own psychology and become braver and then take better decision in life. If I work for myself to create my own products, the first several years will be hard years. But after that life will get better and improve exponently. While working for others is the opposite, the first several years is the easiest years and then decline, one often stuck there and loss their ability to do anything else. The fear to be independence is growing bigger by time. Life will turn into merely repetition and schedule.

0 The secret of happiness

2.6.2021 The secret of happiness People want happiness, it's the purpose of life for most people. Just like wealth, most people don't have it. There is no secret to happiness as well as to wealth. Every individual has their own criteria and definition about it. It's relative and therefore depends on the minds. The happiness of individual depends on the happiness of family, friends, and society as well. It's never singular and separate case. Id an individual lives alone in an island, his happiness is very different compare to those who live in the city. Happiness or wellbeing is somewhat change every time depends on the understanding that one has as an individual and as social being. Therefore happiness is very difficult to get because people don't even understand it. Ask people what they really want, their answer would be happiness. Then ask them to elaborate in detail, they often don't understand about their own conception. It's too abstract and general. Imagine you go to an address in another country but the address is not detail, can get there? very difficult. According to Spinoza, power equals happiness and the true power is understanding. I agree completely to him. Therefore thue happiness is understanding. Our world is limited by our knowledge. One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language. Those who know several languages live in several worlds. Reality is difference from individual to individual. No one sees the and perceives the same event totally same. So suffering is subjective. Your suffering is not my suffering, your happiness is not my happiness. Socrates said that "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Ignorance people believe that money will bring happiness. It's half true. Money bring happiness and unhappiness equally. It gives you safety and danger equally. Money makes you greedy. Understanding is different. It brings peaceful of mind. Most problems and sufferings are imagination. Today, because of globalization, the richest man doesn't enjoy better foods than most people, they don't enjoy better TV shows, better entertainment, all people basically enjoy the same thing. The richest people are not much happier than normal people. Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys the illusion of happiness. The study of lottery winners prove this statement, a year after they win the lottery, their happiness come back to the previous level, some even get worse.