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英文日记： Is happiness the destiny or the trip along the way?
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I guess, upon reading this title, a lot of the readers would answer me," Of course happiness is the process, the trip along the way, for life is just the trip, destiny is near the end of death."
But please do read on.
There is a fairy tale which goes like this:
Once upon a time there lived a king who could have everything in this world for he had cold hard gold--The Chinese silk, the Indian palace, the English castle, the French tailor, the Persian cook, the Japanese girls, the Spanish yacht, and what not. But he was not happy with his life. One day his councilor brought a Wise Old Man to the king, who didn't hesitate much to raise the question to the old,
"How may I become happy?"
"When you have found the person admitting he or she is happy, then take off his or her shirt, which you shall put on, after that, you will become the happiest man in this world." The Wise Old Man thus replied.
And so the king sent all his soldiers to search for this happy person. Time was slipping away, years had gone by before a troop of soldier found a man sitting on a cow in the kelly-green grass playing a flute, a smile beaming on his face.
"Are you happy every day?" The officer in charge of the troop asked the happy man.
"Yes, I have no worry in this world.' The happy soul answered.
"Then, in our king's honor, would you take off your shirt so that we may bring it back to the king."
The happy soul took off his garment, with which back the troop of soldier took to their king.
The ending of story sees the king did not become happy in return and that he never did become happy to the last day he died.
What does the story intend to us?
Happiness is not something you purhase, but a state of mind?
When I was just a little kid, I read articles that kids from poverty-stricken classes studied hard in school, during which they suffered, but with a great mark they entered some neat universities, and upon graduation, they got a nice-paid job, they married someone nice, and living happily ever after.
This is a typical "Happiness purchasing"story instead of a choice of state of mind.
I believed it, and I am always believing it...
I was clever as I growing up, so it didn't take much effort to earn a good mark always. Then I rebelled, as youngsers always do. I did not study hard in high school, but I still made it in a very good university.
I was a top student in the university, then scholarships, admires,part-times,extracurriculums,and then finally I graduated. Now I am working as an interpreter in a a-little-bit-better company than my peers(该处指同学), I earn a a-little-bit-higher-paid salary than my peers...
But it's nothing like the "Happiness purchasing" inspiring stories at all. I am not rich, I am not rich inspite of my abilities and efforts. I do not gain the love of my beloved, not to talk about marriage.
Yes, it's disappointed love. And it's more about relationships and friends circles that matter to help one climb up the ladder in this society. Yes, I am still not rich.
But I am not unhappy, (though I can't say I am happy) I am mastering technical knowledge every day, I am contributing every day to earn what I deserve.I know my working experience and my knowledge would help me in the future, thus I am never disappointed, though I got apple-polishers around, and that things are tough for me a lotta times, and I am lonely without love...
出师未捷身先死,诸葛亮劳碌后半生为刘后主取曹域,纵上知天文地理，下通三教九流，最后六出祁山而失利，天绝亮也。
Doesn't the situation kinda apply to my case here? I, Daniel, like the Master Mind, sacrificed all my happiness for the happy ending（为幸福的结局而付出了路上美好的风景）。
Sometimes I think being in a state of happiness inspite of financial struggles is just lying to myself. Why should I be this way?
Tell me whatever makes a man? I guess a lot of times the state of mind can't be chosen, it's not a choice but a reflection of what stimulates you outside, thus, believing in the "Happiness purchasing" story.
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Post comment Comment (10 replies)
- Reply catnfish
- I think happiness is like the carrot in front of the donkey that it'll never reach no matter how hard it tries, but the feeling of getting close to it already makes the hardworking donket grateful for all it has!
- Reply Ley
- well, happiness is the goal human beings are pursuing in their lives. Read some philosophic books and with the growth of life experience, we may understand what it is better.
- Reply Tange
- as you describe on the fairy tale, the king rich of material, but poor of happiness. the story end up with the failure of taste the happy feeling. you showed us your opinion : the result is more important than process. it is true?
you listed your unhappy , it is not too late to make a try , date the girl ,make a kiss and stay in love with your lover. haha
- Reply Fionahere
- happiness indeed is not just the state of mind since we are not living purely by those spiritual stuff.But it does make sense. i once encountered such a sentence: happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision. while bearing this in mind,the long vista is there for the seeing. wish you "Happiness pursuing "story a happy ending
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- Reply Skyofpeng
- catnfish: I think happiness is like the carrot in front of the donkey that it'll never reach no matter how hard it tries, but the feeling of getting close to itEm..that sounds make sense!
Nevertheless,true love maybe doesn't work~
- Reply catnfish
- Skyofpeng: Em..that sounds make sense!ha ~ that's right, after all impossible is nothing~
Nevertheless,true love maybe doesn't work~
- Reply Sally_Fan
- I agree with you that happiness is just a state of mind, we can 't describe it, but we always can feel about it.
- Reply danielrayslee
- Sally_Fan: I agree with you that happiness is just a state of mind, we can 't describe it, but we always can feel about it.Since the earliest human history, men began to talk about love, kindness,and one thing more--happiness. They can't seem to agree upon what is the definition of happiness, whatever is happiness--such an abstract thing, an intangible thing.
But happiness is quite simple.
When you need this something, this something is right there at your side, you are lucky enough to obtain happiness. Otherwise, miseries.
- Reply yyjjxx12345
- very good college, which is it
- Reply yyjjxx12345
- do the things you like~~i mean both for an earning, but every one of us live in the real world, you mean the abundant of the emotional world will be happy, and i can't agree you more
