...but if anyone figures out the steps necessary to make this possible, would you please make an exception and tell me?!
The title of this post is a pretty common saying now, so that part isn't unique to me, but neither is the second part, even if people don't generally follow it up like that.
What the heck am I trying to say?
Well, that saying is very cheery, a bit funny, and definitely optimistic. But it's missing a pretty crucial part.
HOW DO WE MAKE THE STUPID ORANGE JUICE?!?
Maybe it's the realist in me, or some might argue, the pessimist, but you can't tell me that I'm the only one who wonders. Life is basically like this, isn't it? We usually at least have a very basic loose idea of the right thing to strive for, but the difficult part is knowing HOW to get to it. Like I said in an earlier post, our ultimate goal is eudaimonia - ultimate happiness, whatever that means for that person. Are there many different ways per person to reach that, or only one set way that we're all searching for? How do we know if we found that way anyways??
How do we know if anything is real or correct? If we're born into a family who thinks a certain way, even if we really search and examine our thinking and motives, how do we know for sure that it's a personal thing if we've never experienced anything else? Yes, it could very well be a personal thing apart from a family thing, but how can you really tell if that's all you've ever known?
How do we know with certainty that the grass isn't greener on the other side in certain cases?
We don't.
The question is, should we strive to find out, or shut up and accept the seemingly inevitable lemonade?
These are the sort of thoughts that keep me up at night.
The title of this post is a pretty common saying now, so that part isn't unique to me, but neither is the second part, even if people don't generally follow it up like that.
What the heck am I trying to say?
Well, that saying is very cheery, a bit funny, and definitely optimistic. But it's missing a pretty crucial part.
HOW DO WE MAKE THE STUPID ORANGE JUICE?!?
Maybe it's the realist in me, or some might argue, the pessimist, but you can't tell me that I'm the only one who wonders. Life is basically like this, isn't it? We usually at least have a very basic loose idea of the right thing to strive for, but the difficult part is knowing HOW to get to it. Like I said in an earlier post, our ultimate goal is eudaimonia - ultimate happiness, whatever that means for that person. Are there many different ways per person to reach that, or only one set way that we're all searching for? How do we know if we found that way anyways??
How do we know if anything is real or correct? If we're born into a family who thinks a certain way, even if we really search and examine our thinking and motives, how do we know for sure that it's a personal thing if we've never experienced anything else? Yes, it could very well be a personal thing apart from a family thing, but how can you really tell if that's all you've ever known?
How do we know with certainty that the grass isn't greener on the other side in certain cases?
We don't.
The question is, should we strive to find out, or shut up and accept the seemingly inevitable lemonade?
These are the sort of thoughts that keep me up at night.
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