Posted by Anonymous on 2015/05/25 under Uncategorized Sometimes I find it difficult to understand people. The biggest thing that totally frustrates me about life though, is how it’s impossible to understand exactly how anyone is feeling at any one point in time because, even if you know what has upset them, no one can possibly know to what extent someone is hurt by something, or the exact way that they will react to anything at that time. It’s like that cheesy question ‘If you could have any superpower, what would it be?’ – and quite honestly I think my answer wouldn’t be to cure world hunger or to cure cancer, no matter how important that is, it would be to have the ability to truly and honestly be able to understand how someone feels and to have the endless knowledge needed to be able to cure ‘world unhappiness’. Maybe because I know how hard it can be to live life unhappy, or maybe because I hate the feeling of knowing someone is unhappy and I can do nothing to help, but nevertheless I think that if we all took steps to make the world a better place by making the people of the world happier would that not have knock on effects to all aspects of life and the world? Could it not result in better run countries, more generous countries in terms of food for 3rd world countries. It infuriates me that so many people are obsessed with climbing the ladder of popularity, even falling privy to it myself sometimes, when life is all about being happy – and surely having many people supposedly love you just appeals to a false acceptance of yourself through the views of others, rather than a journey to loving yourself that we all need to experience to achieve true happiness. That is where I feel our generation has gone somewhat wrong – we’ve led everyone to believe that with fame or popularity or money comes happiness – which has brought out the greed and selfishness we so often see today. It’s as if we’ve created our own form of nationalism but on a person level in which we worship ourselves for being greater than others. The only problem is that when people reach the fame and fortune they so crave, they realise that it doesn’t simultaneously create perpetual happiness and then they become obsessed with improving themselves in the view of others in the hope that it will help. The thought that happiness has to be worked towards and found has been so diminished in the minds of people today that people become distraught with the idea that they’ll never be happy if they don’t find that feeling instantly; we’ve created a horrendous cycle which we need to stop. Firstly, we need to start by accepting the fact that beauty, fame, fortune, even love, family, and friends, despite how difficult it is to believe it, do not indefinitely mean happiness. So work for your happiness by working to accept yourself, no matter how hard it seems, because despite how you may reject the idea – no one can be happy unless they accept themselves, no matter the quantity of others whom accept you.