The Pursuit of Unhappiness

I was reading stuffs online today and stumble upon article. The article is called "The Pursuit of Unhappiness". It leaves me wondering, the pursuit of unhappiness...? Got see wrong or not....eh no wor! Unhappiness wor !! Didn't see wrong. doesn't that mean looking for misery and sadness ? Almost everybody I know looks for happiness, why would anybody with a sane mind would even look for misery ? Then after reading it, I realize it is not that people actually look for misery to be sad and to hurt themselves, but to look for happiness. It's a psychology article and I can't help but agree that it is true. It's a difficult concept to understand and to explain but can be simplified by 2 situation.

The writer's friend was in Inuit once, on a snowmobile in a middle of a blizzard. Their snowmobile broke down. Both the writer and the friend got off of the snowmobile and inspected the damage and came to conclusion that their snowmobile is beyond repair. The writer's friend lift up both of her hands and laugh. The writer irritated and worried said, "How can you laugh at the time like this ? We could die in the blizzard !"

And the reply was none other than, "When there is nothing left to do, you can only laugh.".

Take another situation, a group of friends had a party in the mountains. They were partying whole night in their summer clothing when a storm started. They have to walk back to the house, all drench and cold. But they were laughing all the way. Probably laughing at themselves.

From the 2 situations, the pursuit of unhappiness is not pursuing misery, but more like pursuing happiness through misery. It's a difficult concept to understand and seriously humans can be so stupid sometimes. >.<

Humans tend to create their own mess and problems. They know it hurts and breaks them but yet they still do it. From using the past as a source of unhappiness (yearning for the good old days or regrets) to avoiding reality checks and romanticizing unachievable high goals.

Happiness and contentment, easily understandable but so hard to achieve. "So, how do we be happy then ?" you ask ? Simple. Read the bible. While I don't mean your life will be smooth sailing once you read it, but if you follow what is written inside, you avoid a lots of unnecessary pain and you will always be very contented. Read and gather from it wisdom and knowledge, and it shall guide you in your journey during your ups and downs.