Happiness:
How did you find me ?
Please stay.
Don’t go away.
Positivity, i need you in my life.
Forget the quest for truth,
the quest for happiness is worth more.
My grip is upon you, happiness.
How long will you be with me ?
For ever and after that
Why, then, do you seek truth in philosophy?
Have you mistaken philosophos for philidonos?
If you love pleasure and happiness more than wisdom, are you not prejudiced against the truth?
Have you been seduced by the delusion that happiness and truth are tautologies?
If so, then be inspired by simpler creatures, like apes and dogs, for they know only of pleasure and the joy it brings them, and do not concern themselves with anything else.
All a dog needs to be happy is a snack, a pat, a ball, a bitch…
The recipe for being happy is easy, what is difficult is finding the ingredients…and for that you need to be wise, or objective, otherwise you must rely on chance, or learn to become stoic and a minimalist.
And a miracle every foghorn bring appears to presuppose