Mantus

En contraire,

Air is easy to get. When you wake up in the morning do you feel happy at your first conscious inhalation? No. But go snorkeling and stay bellow water for a minute. When you come up air never tasted so sweet. Now trying having an astma attack. What euphoria you feel when the lungs are clear at last and you are able to take a deep breath.

The two example of happiness mentioned above would have never happened if air did not become scarce. The person had to suffer in order to be happy. This happiness won’t last though. Air becomes a common substance once again and the novelty quickly wears off.

Further more.

You can give happiness. Haven’t you ever been happy for some one? Haven’t you ever been around a perky person and picked up their mood?

Now you say that you being happy doesn’t make my happiness worthless. That is wrong as well. Happiness may be just a byproduct but so is oxigen. Every human on this planet wants it and will do anything to make it happen. If you are happy I will envy you, I will want whatever it is that makes you happy and vice versa. If I am happy with my new car and find out that you have a better car my happiness will be diminished, because the value of the object which made me happy is lowered in my mind. If I am dating a girl and meet a more beautiful girl my happiness in the first relationship will diminish, this is why people break up, because they find some one better that will give them more happiness.

Let me ask you this: what was that last thing that made you happy that came without a price?

Any object you have you have only gave you happiness because you didn’t have it before. Most of those object you had to work hard for.

You lover had to be won. The relationship has to be sustained and allot of commitment has to be put into it. Further more you are always in fear of loosing the one you love.

A warm summer day is only made beautiful because one has to work in the office for 40 hours a week.

A walk bearfoot on the beech is wonderful because the weather wont permit it for the other half of the year.

A quiet morning is only blissful because you have to be driving though rush hour in an hour.

The first hot summer day brightens your mood because you just had to live though a bitter cold winter.

The first big snowfall make you giddy because you just had to live though a hot summer.

Everything comes at a price, the price is not always obvious but it’s always there. If happiness were as easy to get as air then you would not even know you had it. Like air and everything else the only way we can see the value of it is by feeling the lack of it.