What is happiness? Is it, as the government has taught us, things. Things which we easily become bored with and require other new things to keep as happy? Or is happiness found in relationships, like the ones we are supposed to have with our children, but the government makes it easy for us to leave our children in their care all the time so we can go on working to pay the debts we incur in the pursuit of happiness (things)?
We have been told ever since the end of WW2 that there was no longer any obstacles to the pursuit of happiness and that we should all acquire the things that would make us happy, often without regard to the cost. After all a little debt is good as long as you can be happy.
The problem with acquiring things is that soon you have a garage full of things that made you happy for a short time. And then add a storage unit, and then another and on and on. And then we have to work more to pay for the things we ‘had’ to have to make us happy.
We’ve essentially given our children over to the schools so that both parents can work to pay for living expenses and the debt of the things we bought that would make us happy. And then we go into more debt to buy more things to make us happy because we gave away that which did make us happy, our relationships with our children!
Relationships, of all kinds, make us happy. The ‘happiness’ with things is rather fleeting.
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