I respect (don't read "like/love", I said "respect") people who are happy in their life. Not talking about happiness which is characterized by excitement (ripples), but contentment (tranquility). Yeah, so those who are happy/content in their life are the most respectable people for me. Because after all, absurd as life is, what else should be the goal of one's life! Being happy that way would mean that one is at ease in the mind no matter what. Only a truly wise person can be in that state. Hence the respect.
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Had a conversation with a friend a few days back. He not only said that he likes to be with happy people, but also that he thinks happiness should be infectious. I share a difference of opinion on the latter part. I don't think that happiness has to be infectious. I wonder why it "should be" so. It will be infectious only if it is in the form other people desire it to be, for only then they can even recognize it. If happiness for me is not how other people want to see happiness then it won't be infectious. Should I be happy in the way other people see happiness? Just for example, I never party – which is the most common vent for happiness; so some people always tell me that I don't enjoy life. Now that's amusingly presumptuous. I would say they just don't know what constitutes my enjoyment. Isn't it enough that I am feeling fulfilled, irrespective of what other people see it as? If someone's getting "infected", fine; if not, that should be fine with me too.
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Had a conversation with a friend a few days back. He not only said that he likes to be with happy people, but also that he thinks happiness should be infectious. I share a difference of opinion on the latter part. I don't think that happiness has to be infectious. I wonder why it "should be" so. It will be infectious only if it is in the form other people desire it to be, for only then they can even recognize it. If happiness for me is not how other people want to see happiness then it won't be infectious. Should I be happy in the way other people see happiness? Just for example, I never party – which is the most common vent for happiness; so some people always tell me that I don't enjoy life. Now that's amusingly presumptuous. I would say they just don't know what constitutes my enjoyment. Isn't it enough that I am feeling fulfilled, irrespective of what other people see it as? If someone's getting "infected", fine; if not, that should be fine with me too.
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