True happiness is not in the action of obtaining that which you want.

True happiness is in the journey in reaching your life's goals.


How 'bout them apples for deep thought, eh?

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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...

we always want what we can't have and the harder it is to get something, the more we want it... and when we finally get it, we usually lose interest.


but yes, the chase is better than the catch (ah, scooter lyrics :haha

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Originally posted by Delay Llama When you get happiness from drinking beer for example, this satisfaction is just temporary because of a simple reason: Beer is finite and you can't be drunk forever. I realise this sounds obvious, but people are bound to forget it because of the pleasure they get from it. Once you drink the content inside the bottle, there's no more beer (unless you obviously buy more, but let's think of the worst case scenario here, in which you've got no money either). What happens? Hangover, and the problem now is that there's no more beer for you to be drunk again and forget/ignore the pain. This way, pleasure led to pain.

and that's exactly like it is with drugs. you take some pills or snort some stuff, you're in heaven for 10 hours, but then comes the comedown... and what? you feel like crap....


and that's the problem with perfection - it doesn't last forever. in fact, most of the time perfection lasts only for a short time and then you have to get on with your life again. we get tired even of the good things if we have too much of them. "the sweet is never as sweet without the sour". the only thing that seems to last pretty long is pain....

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the want of more is in our nature as humans, we are afterall hunter gatherers, less and more extreem with the variety of today but we have come from an evolution of the condition.

As this is our nature, the pursuit therefore is of the happiness rather than the goal itself.

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Originally posted by Orbax I have pretty much everything I want. happiness stems from beer and genital stimulation however one gets that. Some people may disagree, but they are the same people who blush when someone says "masturbate", pansies.

true dat whodi

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"We did not choose to become robots. There was an accident in our studio. We were working on our sampler, and at exactly 9:09 a.m. on September 9, 1999, it exploded. When we regained consciousness, we discovered that we had become robots."

You probably feel that way for several reasons, a lot of which Delay Llama already mentioned.

One of the reasons why the "chase", adequately put, is more desirable than, perhaps the "catch", is the stimulation and motivation behind the chase itself. In attempting to obtain something beyond your reach, you are filled with motivation, because you want something, need something. The desire to have something can be so blinding that you do things that you would not ordinarily do.

In the process of "chasing", a person can be so filled with excitement and joy, that once finally reaching the goal, the person can be disappointed, and disregard and cast away what they had worked so hard to get to in the first place.

Mankind's thought it simple, to go for the goal, so to speak. Most people are raised by the thought process that they can get better, that they deserve better, so automatically, stimulii is produced. Once we have gained control over our desire, we no longer lust for it, because we know there is something better, more desirable, less obtainable.

Unfortunately, this can lead many people to misery, because they could reach a point where there is nothing left for them to yearn for. Ultimately, this leads to one point, to find peace and happiness from within (as already previously stated). By finding peace from within, however, that doesn't mean that you would lose all motivation for the chase, no no. This means that you would bypass the misery if the chase perhaps takes too long, or ends abruptly.

My 2 cents

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aka Chesty LaRue
aka Busty St. Claire

it's just that people have dreams and when they find their dreams, they don't know what to do with them, that's whey they're kinda disappointed. but for the most part it's the fact that once you achieve your dream, you're done, you don't have your dream anymore to look forward to. that's the problem... unless you know what to do with your dream and how to enjoy it

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Btw, whiskers, love the new avatar and sig!

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aka Chesty LaRue
aka Busty St. Claire

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Originally posted by anuneventrade Btw, whiskers, love the new avatar and sig!

thanks, i think i'm gonna rotate the strips and the expressions... calvin is the man and reminds me of myself so much!

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Originally posted by whiskers thanks, i think i'm gonna rotate the strips and the expressions... calvin is the man and reminds me of myself so much!

Woot! I love calvin!

Have to read the new(ish) comic Pearls before swine? So halarious!

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aka Tits McGee
aka Chesty LaRue
aka Busty St. Claire

Psh DL, youve never drank good stuff then. I just deleted my explanation of why your little theory is wrong, but it is. If this has been youre experience, youre doing it wrong. Really wrong.

and so far beer has been infinite for me

eric, just because you can't have me, doesn't mean u should start a thread and whine about it


on a different note...i'm a big calvin & hobbes fan too i have pretty much every single book of them including all the special editions. i used to read them all the time when i was like 10.

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My soliloquy may be hard for some to swallow, but so is cod liver oil.

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone