Well but elephants don’t spend all their time surviving. There’s plenty of times where they are satisfied with food and water and have nothing to do but lay around or play with mud or whatever. Same with almost every other species.
It’s just not necessary to search for any meaning. I personally don’t, I don’t think there is any to find. I’m perfectly happy to just try to fulfill whatever desires that come up in my mind. And there’s simply no shortage of fun stuff to do. Also, almost everything can be fun if you want it to.
Rest and relaxation is a survival function. It’s extremely human to think of that as “wasting time”/“not doing anything”
Sometimes, life loses its savor, things you once enjoyed start to feel dull, and worldly pleasures cease to hold your interest. Maybe not everybody experiences that, and maybe it’s just a phase for some who do, but for those of us for whom it’s more than a phase, it’s kind of invalidating to hear “just be happy bro, just try harder, just fulfill your desires and have fun” as if it were that simple. That’s not original advice, basically all the “normies” say the same thing. It’s not some breakthrough epiphany that I’ve never thought of before.
I haven’t disagreed with you there. I haven’t said “just pull yourself together and be happy”. I know that’s not quite how it works.
I’m just disagreeing that you need to know/search for your meaning to be happy, I’m saying that you can be happy without any meaning or looking for it. Your comment said that either a human has to have their meaning or be actively looking for it, and if they haven’t/aren’t then they’re in the “great abyss” or something. I just wanted to say that that’s not true.
Well but elephants don’t spend all their time surviving. There’s plenty of times where they are satisfied with food and water and have nothing to do but lay around or play with mud or whatever. Same with almost every other species.
It’s just not necessary to search for any meaning. I personally don’t, I don’t think there is any to find. I’m perfectly happy to just try to fulfill whatever desires that come up in my mind. And there’s simply no shortage of fun stuff to do. Also, almost everything can be fun if you want it to.
Rest and relaxation is a survival function. It’s extremely human to think of that as “wasting time”/“not doing anything”
Sometimes, life loses its savor, things you once enjoyed start to feel dull, and worldly pleasures cease to hold your interest. Maybe not everybody experiences that, and maybe it’s just a phase for some who do, but for those of us for whom it’s more than a phase, it’s kind of invalidating to hear “just be happy bro, just try harder, just fulfill your desires and have fun” as if it were that simple. That’s not original advice, basically all the “normies” say the same thing. It’s not some breakthrough epiphany that I’ve never thought of before.
I haven’t disagreed with you there. I haven’t said “just pull yourself together and be happy”. I know that’s not quite how it works.
I’m just disagreeing that you need to know/search for your meaning to be happy, I’m saying that you can be happy without any meaning or looking for it. Your comment said that either a human has to have their meaning or be actively looking for it, and if they haven’t/aren’t then they’re in the “great abyss” or something. I just wanted to say that that’s not true.