tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post1034274172141521625..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Stuff doesn't make you happy. HAHAHAHA!Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-27390875702041848632017-07-30T08:52:06.418-07:002017-07-30T08:52:06.418-07:00Yes ... but, what I don't get is this: Why sho...Yes ... but, what I don't get is this: Why should people wait until they they get to their deathbeds in order to wonder about the meaning of their lives? It is bizarre, right?<br /><br />And, of course, the very fact that we cannot take any damn thing with us when we die. So, what good is the stuff that we collect? Remember "You have only your memories with you when dying"?<br />http://sriramkhe.blogspot.com/2013/06/only-your-memories-are-with-you-when.html<br />All the more the reason to focus on experiences, and not on stuff ...Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-12596266632811578052017-07-29T18:04:25.194-07:002017-07-29T18:04:25.194-07:00Much of the "research" in social science...Much of the "research" in social sciences is like this. Flogging the blindingly obvious. Or else something so esoteric, incomprehensible and irrelevant that nobody wants to know anything about it and by default it becomes academically "weighty".<br /><br />I wish to add the dimension of age to your very right exposition of the road to happiness.<br /><br />For a baby its simply the parent and food that will make her happy.<br />For a child its probably more the joy of playing<br />For a teenager its probably freedom and sex<br />For the young adult its Ok to be happy with making money and accumulating things<br /><br />Its as we grow older that purpose and relationships become (or should become) the focal point of life. The tragedy is that from the young adult stage, people tend to branch off all over the place. Some get stuck with the obsession for material wealth. Some crave for power. Some lust for fame. Many just drift.<br /><br />But I am willing to bet, that at least on their death bed, everybody would long for having had meaning in their life and for outstanding relationships. Even Genghis Khan, the ultimate symbol of the lust for wealth and power, in his final years desperately sought meaning to his life.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com