What could be the most important thing in life? Happiness? Truth? Goodness? Beauty?
Or are Truth, Goodness, Beauty means to Happiness?
Finding the one all encompassing meaning of existence, the state of the mind, reality. The search. Curiosity. Reaching to the very depths of science, making all the connections. What is that intelligent design?
What does it mean to exist and what does it mean to be alive.
The satisfaction of the ego.
When the mind discovers something, solves a major problem, neurotransmitters in the brain cause the person to feel happy. Intellectual happiness. But then the torturous Why… Meaning searches for reasons.
Hedonistic happiness. Most attractive women, wild sex, the feeling of being desired, wanted. Hormones. Food. Feed the human machine with its physical needs.
Society’s praise and admiration. Glamour. Vanity..
Life’s comforts – a beautiful house, a nice view of the sea, convenience, luxury. Fussiness, being pampered. Being served.
Physical freedom. Psychological freedom.
Beauty: art. Transcendental, impalpable. No end. No reason given. Just is. An offspring of human idiosyncrasy. Perhaps the burning human need for expression. Shared.
The occupation with the trivial. The concern, sometimes real and imagined with success. Fears. Insecurities. Stagnation. Lack of fulfillment. Loss.
Genetic propagation-
I look at my son – when I die he will live on, he will live on my behalf, he will fullfil what I have not, achieve what I could not, then his children, I guess a piece of me will still be there, but how much of me will be in their children’s children, and if anything, do I want them to carry a certain pride that they are the descendants of so and so? Tribalism. What value is this stupid pride going to leave, and in any case, will I in any genetic capacity or sentimental one be really there.