Tuesday Mar 27, 2007

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Hello mates!
Today was areally good day at work. I'm a scientist, a biochemist and in my line of work long times can pass without much progress. Such days it help to have buddies on the net to chat with and of course nice pictures to look at and good stories to read here on SG. But today was one of those rare days when you remember why you choose this line of work. Major progress. Not that I cured cancer or parkinson or anything ... but anyway.
You know the wise guy from the mountains? I mean Dalai Lama. He once said that "Life is a long suffering with small, small grains of happiness".
How do you see it? Is it possible to be happy all the time? Is that what you are chasing for?

Hope you had a good day to biggrin

iam_walrus:
Congratulations on your progress! I can relate, as my profession is making computer analysis tools for engineering. Same type of thing - hacking away at the problem until all of a sudden it's finished (and even works too).

People aren't designed to handle long-term happiness (fortunately). If the things that made us happy kept us happy for a long period of time then that would also mean that the things that made us miserable would also keep us miserable for a long time. But I don't agree that suffering has to be the dominant aspect of our life. We can be satisfied most of the time and the occassional bad times simply strengthen us and allow us to appreciate the really good times.

I suppose the real question is how do we achieve "satisfaction"? I would list things like:

  • having family and friends who appreciate us
  • are confident we know where we came from and where we're going (faith/philosopy)
  • we take the time to help others
vhott:
i dont think any one can be happy all the time,but we can be happy part of the time. so i take it as it comes. i suppose ultimately life is what your mind percieves as happieness. the brain is wild piece of equipment. no one is mello all the time.-vhott

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