Question about the positive things in life
September 15, 2023 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2023 at 6:14 pm by ShinyCrystals.)
I did not know what other sub-forum to put this in, but I guess it works in this one. If not, if it is possible to move this to the right sub-forum, please do. Now, I have a question I wish to ask all of you...
Have you ever felt that most, if not, all the positive things in life can be, or are like an illusion, or like a drug?
What I mean is things like happiness, love, good, those kinds of things. I mean, sure, they are great to have, don't get me wrong, but I think these kinds of things can be built up to become like a drug, like meth. I mean, too much love, or too much happiness can prevent people from seeing the reality of things, especially if not enough bad things happen to them. While it is not necessary or even ideal to have too many bad things happen to people as well, we, as people, need both the good and bad to balance life out, and that is a reason why we learn from our mistakes. Too much of the good things can prevent people from making the right decisions, being able to deal with situations that are bad well, those kinds of things. I personally think too much of anything good can happen to have bad results. Even if the person is not really affected by these bad results somehow, others can be affected negatively, too.
As for the illusion part, I feel that too many people in this world think everything is fine, life is good for them, nothing needs to change, nothing bad is going to happen, etc., when in what I believe to be plenty of cases, things may not be fine for those people, and they are living in an illusion, or simulation where they think things are okay. It may depend on the person, or it could be more general, but it is like people using religion to escape reality; no matter how much they try to escape it, and even if they think they have escaped it, it is always there, and affecting them in ways they don't know, hence the illusion part. Whether they are being affected negatively by this illusion or others are, there is always something they do not know, that they may not want to accept, that makes life not so great. Even if they don't suffer the consequences in their lifetime, there is a chance people's offspring may suffer those consequences later in life if they continue down the same path thinking everything is fine. It is kind of like how people believe in free will, but that, in itself, is an illusion as I am sure many of us believe.
The problem is, though, we are too inclined to want good things to happen to us, and we are too inclined, furthermore, to want to hear what we want to hear. We even have emotions that can make it hard to cope with reality and life. Thing is, even if life is not as great as we want it to be, we can still try to improve it. That said, I also think many people in this world are emotionally, morally and overall, mentally underdeveloped for these kinds of things, not seeing how too much good can be a bad thing and that some things are illusions and not what people want them to be. Thing is, reality and society is meant to, and can change, no matter how slowly, but many seem to focus on the present, or now part of time rather than waiting for the future itself. The way the human mind works is faulty, and I do not think it was, when humans came into existence, meant for a big society like we would end up having now. There is also always a trade off for good and bad; what happens to some one that is good can be bad for others, by the laws of nature, that is technically unavoidable.
With all that said, what do you all think? Can too much good of anything be a bad thing and like a drug, and can some good things people may think exist, or are existing in life in fact, an illusion?
Have you ever felt that most, if not, all the positive things in life can be, or are like an illusion, or like a drug?
What I mean is things like happiness, love, good, those kinds of things. I mean, sure, they are great to have, don't get me wrong, but I think these kinds of things can be built up to become like a drug, like meth. I mean, too much love, or too much happiness can prevent people from seeing the reality of things, especially if not enough bad things happen to them. While it is not necessary or even ideal to have too many bad things happen to people as well, we, as people, need both the good and bad to balance life out, and that is a reason why we learn from our mistakes. Too much of the good things can prevent people from making the right decisions, being able to deal with situations that are bad well, those kinds of things. I personally think too much of anything good can happen to have bad results. Even if the person is not really affected by these bad results somehow, others can be affected negatively, too.
As for the illusion part, I feel that too many people in this world think everything is fine, life is good for them, nothing needs to change, nothing bad is going to happen, etc., when in what I believe to be plenty of cases, things may not be fine for those people, and they are living in an illusion, or simulation where they think things are okay. It may depend on the person, or it could be more general, but it is like people using religion to escape reality; no matter how much they try to escape it, and even if they think they have escaped it, it is always there, and affecting them in ways they don't know, hence the illusion part. Whether they are being affected negatively by this illusion or others are, there is always something they do not know, that they may not want to accept, that makes life not so great. Even if they don't suffer the consequences in their lifetime, there is a chance people's offspring may suffer those consequences later in life if they continue down the same path thinking everything is fine. It is kind of like how people believe in free will, but that, in itself, is an illusion as I am sure many of us believe.
The problem is, though, we are too inclined to want good things to happen to us, and we are too inclined, furthermore, to want to hear what we want to hear. We even have emotions that can make it hard to cope with reality and life. Thing is, even if life is not as great as we want it to be, we can still try to improve it. That said, I also think many people in this world are emotionally, morally and overall, mentally underdeveloped for these kinds of things, not seeing how too much good can be a bad thing and that some things are illusions and not what people want them to be. Thing is, reality and society is meant to, and can change, no matter how slowly, but many seem to focus on the present, or now part of time rather than waiting for the future itself. The way the human mind works is faulty, and I do not think it was, when humans came into existence, meant for a big society like we would end up having now. There is also always a trade off for good and bad; what happens to some one that is good can be bad for others, by the laws of nature, that is technically unavoidable.
With all that said, what do you all think? Can too much good of anything be a bad thing and like a drug, and can some good things people may think exist, or are existing in life in fact, an illusion?
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