When my math students ask me what a limit is, I tell them that a limit is movement, a movement that sometimes ends in a precipice and sometimes never stops, but in all cases limits and happiness can only be understood if we move in function and eclipse the same movement.
This can be a movement to the “have”. Most parents sell their children the need to be the ant and despise the cicada (guilty, of course, of what happens to her in the end). The future is unpredictable and you never know how many resources we might need. understand the complexity of this philosophy and see knowledge as a way to take exams and make your parents happy.
- An acquaintance you’ll see differently when you fall in love.
- When that time comes.
- They’ll want to know everything.
- They will be fascinated by the possibility of discovering.
- How the little one looks in amazement at the person who shows and hides his face in a game.
Then it will be as if the function begins to approach its limit by instinctive will and to insinuate the asymptote to which it aspires and to which it will never come, so that love becomes the engine of knowledge. A movement that is reinforced by the idealization that inevitably occurs from those early (and not so early) ages.
“Thousands of candles can be lit with a candle, and the life of this flame will not be shortened. Does happiness never diminish when shared?-Bouddha-
One of the most common motivations is one that responds to the “need to have”. The one we talked about before and which is transmitted to children through the echo of the message when it strikes society itself. A society that promotes consumption as a perfect valid solution to maintain or improve the quality of life.
Thus, at some point the model is renewed and the past becomes obsolete, strolling down the street and starting to see the faces in the stained glass windows of museums, the same ones that allow us to see that this movement exists.
Money benefits from this desire to prostitute yourself. Prostitutes with dignity, body and selfless motivations. Thus, money acquires an appeal to which few people resist, since many exchange it with the devil on the part of their soul.
Then the money becomes the carrot. Then we will go where people go, but people go where the money is, so many consider this activity to have become, in itself, a solid justification for others to follow them.
This is the thinking of many people who have participated in cases of political or sporting corruption, with the use of illicit substances, that is what much of Nazi Germany thought when it followed the vagaries of genocide, if others follow this path, happiness must be Then why not follow them?
Another of the engines, and at the same time source of dissatisfaction with happiness, is pleasure, sensitive satisfactions are the perfect anesthesia to look down, which makes us change the verb to be with the verb being, a priori much easier to conjugate and a piece that fits much better in any sentence that alludes to the fleetingness of life. Then pleasure seduces by stripping off our fragility: enjoy today because you may not have a tomorrow.
Who can deal with this message when news or newspapers show much more unhappiness than reasons for hope?When we talk about what concerns us, not what calms us down?So, one way or another, we assume that the frequency with which we hear the news is how often something happens.
That’s how we get to “I can die now and I want to enjoy it. “But of course, this barely carries the message with the attitude of the ant. What to accumulate?To deal with uncertainties ?. In this way neuroticism appears, anarchic behavior that ends up ending with the other person; that in this effort to follow, he forgot to be and feel, not knowing how to choose responsibility or joy.
Yes, in the same sense that it gives us reason to move forward when everything gets complicated and little or nothing has to do with money, but with the value we think we have. Let us remember the importance of this meaning, alluding to the famous work. of Viktor Frankl, in which he describes how this meaning, true or false, has led many people to survive certain conditions in concentration camps, while others have surrendered.
A more interesting interpretation of happiness is one that has to do with virtue, which makes us the prominence of our history and takes it away from its ends or ends, activities that concern us intimately, such as thanking, forgiving or loving. Activities that unra up the pace, the present and the future in the same being, ours, this ensures that we have a good interpretation of our history, the opportunity to share the present and gives us hope for the future.
In this way, there is also a desire to know. Meet others, but also ourselves. A second acquaintance that never ends, just like the first, but transmits tranquility and security. Walking this way, questions and one or the other. The answer will appear, but what will become our shadow will be happiness, one that leaves precisely those who do not subordinate the need to have or enjoy the need to be.
Those for whom the pursuit of happiness becomes an infinite limit, for yes, happiness is movement and there is something infinite, but in no way is it a vital limit or an asymptomatic component through which all kinds of torture pass.