We all want to be happy – but are we really supposed to be…?

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First, read this article. FastCompany: How to be happy anywhere

Then think twice: why do YOU think that people seem to be more unhappy the more they possess?

I came to conclude, that happy people are an unwanted species – at least from an economic point of view: “Unhappy people are the fuel of an economy that is determined to eternal growth.”

Did you ever wonder why the evening news are followed by the best paid commercials? – It follows a simple yet intriguing logic: the news tell you how bad this world is – and buying the latest gadgetry will make you feel OK again.

Lets face it: Happiness has no lobby, since there is no economic interest in happy people. The worst thing that could happen to a market driven economy would be a society that dwells in happiness, without any interest to participate in the rat race of limitless consumption.

So what is left for us to do? Surrender to a programmatic uneasiness, where only the good consumer has a right to call oneself ‘happy’?

Wait a minute – it’s not that hopeless. We still have our free will. We may decide to detach from media and marketing that keep selling us the keys to happiness. And we can search for alternatives, to find our own keys to happiness, to find our wealth and happiness within ourselves…

Finish every day

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      Finish every day and be done with it.

      You have done what you could.

      Some blunders and absurdities

      no doubt have crept in;

      forget them as soon as you can.

      Tomorrow is a new day;

      begin it well and serenely

      and with too high a spirit

      to be cumbered with

      your old nonsense.

      This day is all that is

      good and fair.

      It is too dear,

      with its hopes and invitations,

      to waste a moment on yesterdays.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Kunstvoll, nicht künstlich

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»Ich hasse meine Vergangenheit und die der Anderen.
Ich hasse Resignation, Berufsheldentum und alle verpflichtenden Artigkeiten.
Ich hasse Kunsthandwerk, Folklore und Werbung. Ich hasse den Geruch von Naphthalin und die Aktualität der Gegenwart.

Ich mag hintergründigen Humor, Sommersprossen, langes Frauenhaar, das Lachen von Kindern, ein Mädchen, das auf der Straße läuft.

Ich wünsche mir echte Liebe und das Unmögliche. Ich wünsche mir Trugbilder.« 

– René Magritte (Surrealist, 1898 – 1965)

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