I read somewhere that most people find misery more appealing because it gives them the sense of control since some people are in more deeper shit than they are.

Nice mood twists.

trying to be happy in a state of uncontrollable emotional breakdown may lead to temporary or permanent insanity, which I’d assume no one wants to be in.

happiness somehow tends to make you do stupid things, misery, on the other hand, teaches you to rationalize about everything.

You’re right Liz. Happy people are perceived to be boring so most people avoid happiness like a plague. At least, they don’t talk openly about it anyway.

So they take the miserable route. Be moody and difficult. Until they realize that they wasted most of their life wallowing in misery when all they want in their heart is to be happy.

As for me. I like happy stories and happy endings. I’m boring, I know.

lin: i’m a relatively happy person. except when my stomach feels weird, which it is feeling right now.

sonners: but someone told me i rationalize everything! but i’m not miserable.

pablo: nice to see you here dude. how’s the Thai wilderness doing for you? i like happy stories and endings too. i’m a sucker for them in fact. and so yes we’re both boring. it’s not necessarily a bad adjective you know.

It has to happen, I guess.

which?

hi miss liz! thanks for the link!

i admire you and how you use your words! keep it up!

what was that line from “as good as it gets”?

Melvin Udall: It’s not true. Some have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that’s their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you’re that pissed that so many others had it good.

best movie of all time.

akira: thank you. i think i’ve told you i love your photos. i think i’ll say it again just to prove it.

marc: nice touch, this. you did fuck around in my blog. coolies. joke?

so, all of a sudden people are trying to avoid being happy because there are those who stereotype them to be boring? In a sense, their lifestyle sucks? Miserable people are way better than those who are happy?

My point is, if one is happy of his miserable life, then be it. If the other is happy with his ‘happy’ life, then fine. what’s the difference with the latter?

This is just an honest opinion po. A healthy intellectual (I hope so) discourse worth of discussion. And everybody is entitled to their opinions.

hehe. I already linked you up na po.

Yeah. That’s true. EMO EMO EMO but I’m so happy, too, at the moment.

Hi, Liz?

Hi liz, add me to your friend list!!!

Misery loves company. Try telling a sad story and people get drawn to it.

^ liz WTF is my mom doing here in your blog??!

Actually if you come to think of it - it is because of misery that the human race has been pushed to excel and evolve. The beauty of our existence is driven by the perpetual need to rise above the miserable human condition - yet never attaining satisfaction. If all human strife has been eradicated there would be no need to live.

rian:

“so, all of a sudden people are trying to avoid being happy because there are those who stereotype them to be boring? In a sense, their lifestyle sucks? Miserable people are way better than those who are happy?”

no. no. and no. you’re looking at what i said all wrong. i said happy people are boring people, and what the fuck about stereotypes? misery is more interesting, but i did not say it is in any way better.

“My point is, if one is happy of his miserable life, then be it. If the other is happy with his ‘happy’ life, then fine. what’s the difference with the latter?”

this i agree with. happiness is relative anyway. thanks for dropping by, peace, linked you too.

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Laarni: that’s good to hear. ^_^

Julsfriend: who are you? i do not know you.

Rhodora: true. a lot of people are miserable enough to form another planet.

Site guy: because i commented on her blog stupet, that’s why. if all human strife has been eradicated there would still be cause to live: to maintain it. gods man have you forgotten your sci-fi?

but why maintain it? if everything is the same everywhere else what else should we strive for? Utopia is starting seem like a very very boring placec

oh yeah it is. but everything moves toward entropy. even utopia.

the very concept of utopia is what fuels our misery. it is unatainable yet we yearn for it and spend our lifetime pursuing it. like the finite never realizing the infinite. I stop myself now before I start talking about Heidegger and the being of Being.

i think you just lost a debate, dear.

wtf?? how?? i disproved your utopia argument?? i argue that it is fuel for the human struggle which i still maintain is driven by misery!

what we were arguing about is how even if man achieves utopia, there is still reason to live because we have to maintain it. and then you change the topic. lezzer!

yes but i said that utopia is simply unattainable and is merely something to fuel human strife. So in effect we can’t maintain utopia because we cannot attain it. We only life to perpetually seek it.

-.- gods. you’re arguing that the egg came first and i’m arguing that the egg is fried. thus, no argument.

Being incurably happy. Which irritates me because it never is meant to happen to anyone.

I’m actually comforted by the way you concluded this entry.

well, good then. you’ll find it yourself.

Nice. I will keep that in mind. At least now I can see how my cyclothymia can add up to a miserably happy life or a contented schitzful life.

And about that utopia thingy… Wouldn’t utopia be a very unhappy place since you NEED to agree with others?! then why seek it?

Sorry, I might have just messed things up further…

I beg to differ site guy. In my opinion, what drives humans to excel and evolve is the hunger for knowledge that can never be satisfied because at one point in time when humans think they know all there is to know, they realize that they really know nothing at all. Take for example technology, every other day something is discovered or invented because these people has this ‘hunger’, so to speak. seldom do these kind of people know torpor.

You might want to have a coffee conversation with socrates. peace.

However, misery is NOT the only element that motivates human to excel and evolve. But I do agree that the state of being miserable, for some, is what fuels them to excel.

One doesn’t work for all.

lol, i wrote a blog before how i loathe happy endings hehe.

but i dont think happy people are boring people though

i agree that happy people are boring people. our miseries and tragedies make us sensitive human beings. what would the world be without drama?

“happy people are boring people”

that is lame and too one sided. no sorry this time. you made it sound like a virtue.

boring people are the complacent one. these are the kind that stop finding to the answers to the questions they have.

individuals do not have to acquaint themselves with loneliness, and miseries, and tragedies often in order to be called interesting or worst to be called sensitive.

the idea is to be appreciative of the fifty percent that we cannot control and creative in the other fifty percent in our hands.

there are enough people who know something about life that i’m still fuckingly stupid to figure out. they never ask for happy endings, coz that something i cannot give, what they all ask is something to make it through for the day.

oh my God..just to make it through for the day! yes they stop asking questions, i am not even sure if they still pursue their dreams but one thing i sense common in them they never give up..

call them miser and collect a battalion of devils to cry for them yet..

when one see their smile..it is not because of boredom for sure..that one we will never and will never be privileged to know

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cheers liz..heto na ang paunmanhin ko sa iyo, kasi kinarir ko..he he sencia na. just take care.

Just noticed the title. Jimmy Eat World. Yay.

Necessity is the mother of invetion rian. We do not pursue knowledge as knowledge alone in its purest sense. To do so would be stupid. Rather this hunger is driven by real world strife and misery. We need knowledge to create for ourselves a better world. But the fact that there is a need for a better world already implies the state of misery in the current human condition. And these people you speak of who have an insatiable hunger for knowlege are miserable because of their hunger.