happy?
I have exactly stumbled into some kind of a waking through MOther Teresa. I am not joking!!!swear, I love her!
i am talking about something which in itself could classify in the highest level of human satisfaction. It was said that when you have already achieved this level ( a certain kind of contentment towards a specific thing/instance/experience…), then you have just completely made use of your human capacity. Atleast,tonight I just figured why I am not an ape or a dog.
LEvel 1 is aesthetic happiness. It is the least since it is the kind which wouldnt require you a handbook or units in theology (joking). There is nothing that separates the men and brutes when in comes to feeding interests. Well, barbaric instincts could be in anyone (that is, if you try looking at a board mate or a politician–hmm…school council or the National government.) This has been the main culprit for hedonistic tendencies,being sexually active, or sometimes greedy and insensitive… (wait, self-check!) Well, just merely survival and physical pleasure could be its determinants. This is when you click off your "moral conduct" pop-up window or when you just do not care about how a friend is trying to tell you how displeased she is with your overdone borrowing habits even when she is not actually telling you this verbally. IN some cases, you never learned about non-verbals while in other cases, you prefer disregarding them, again, for survival and self-imposed privelages. Ever heard of "ownership"?
Level 2: Ethical happiness is an upgrade. This is when you fulfill physical pleasure and survival with your "moral conduct" pop-up window on. You start thinking of propriety and ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE! Although Nizche was kinda right when he said "morality" is only invented for a race to take advantage of the other, in some situations occuring in a so non-primitive era, one should also consider territory, property, and interests… As soon as we realize this, we would be oriented to correct timing and atlast as to who owns what and who doesn’t. Borrowing things could be a really great issue. (that is why I make it a point not to forget returning any pen lent to me, out of risk, hehe=)
Level Three: Religious happiness leads us back to MOther TEresa. Sacrificing, based on how I understand it, is when one lets a day pass without getting a certain "something" which you want for the sake of getting another certain "something". The reason why some would really find it hard to do the same is because they havn’t or choose not to realize that it is not at all times that you only have "yourself" to please.
