If your parents treat you with love since young, you would be able to grow up in an environment filled with love, but when they leave, you would also go through indescribable pain.
However, if your parents abuse and beat you up after getting drunk since young, and in their latter days they would only stretch out their hands to ask for money, would you go through the similar pain when they leave?
Therefore, when man possess greater happiness, the greater the pain is when it is lost.
Let's say I'll make you a great entrepreneur with great career ahead and a billion-dollar mansion to live in, but how much time and money do you need to spend in order to maintain all these? Moreover you need to work until late night to earn more money to maintain your luxurious home, so how much time can you actually spend in that luxurious mansion of yours? With all the obligations, how much time can you spend with your family members? After a long day all you want is a good night's sleep, so basically all you need is a bed! However, it seems like your life is not any better that those idle grandparents who occasionally gather for small talk. Living in a billion-dollar mansion no longer bring any surprises or happiness to you, so wouldn't it bring more pleasant surprises if you go on a trip with your spouse and stay in a 6-star hotel once in a while?
If you can achieve success in career, lead a comfortable life and enjoy your life to the fullest, I suppose you would live a way better life than those deities.
Unfortunately when man possess all of these, they tend to forget who they really are. Furthermore, you can't live forever and you can't bring all of these with you, so I regard this as the illusion of happiness.
True happiness is with us every single second because living itself reflects the joy of life, but our current society, education system and family are instilling us with the wrong idea. We are required to not eat, sleep and live life freely as we wish, because eventually we need to go on diet to satisfy others' aesthetic standard, we need to work more and save more to buy car and house and we need to sacrifice our sleeping hours to work on our assignments and projects. We live our lives by merely waiting for pay increment, promotion, marriage, offspring and wealth to come to us, but at the end of the day you would realize you have been waiting for your dying day.
You're unconsciously restricting everything in life until you've lost the nature and vitality of living a true life, hence all that is left in life is an illusion because you're living to survive, you're living a 'society's' life or also known as a 'walking dead's life'. This is why you can't live as a 'nature's man'.
Back in the days, people study to cultivate their soul and mind, but today people study just for the sake of examination. The purpose of exam is to achieve good results, achieving good results is to enter a prestigious school, entering a prestigious school is to have a better career and the list goes on and on. We do everything to plan for the next step, but we've overlooked the knowledge that we obtained from education as a tool that leads us to live an ordinary, normal and happy 'nature's man's' life.
At the end of the day, studying would only serve to fulfill society's expectation and your illusionary future. Although at the surface your future might look fine, you've already put a full stop to the joy and value of life.
Don't let yourself go through so much pain and burden just to pursue a life of illusionary happiness.
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