The title of this post, “You Will Never Be Truly Happy,” is somewhat of an overstatement. You, at a conscious level, will be happy on an average, but you, at a subconscious level, will never be truly happy. Obviously, this is the part of the mind that I want to discus because of the provocative subject.

In the past I have talked about why you do activities - because they bring you a form of enjoyment. Everything you do is to put your mind at a new state of ease. Sometimes, of course, the end result may be a burden to the conscious. Still, your subconscious is relieved because the action that was desired was completed or at least attempted. However, neither the conscious nor the subconscious will ever be content full time. This is why you do other actions, such as go on vacation, have a drink, and even do tedious work. All of these actions have an effect on your mental place in society.

This is why you continue to differ your routine. If you were content with your place, why would you move? The argument you are probably making as you read this is: yes, but I react to those who affect my life. This is true. Your life is affected by the people who surround you, but are you required to change your path of travel to accommodate them? Short answer: no. You may feel in your conscious that you must react to your surroundings, but in truth we could live as a hermit on a forgotten island. Even if people threaten your life to react a certain way, you could, if desired, allow them to take your life. Depending on your beliefs this might be a form of finding peace. If you choose to save your life and react in the desired way you could say you are reacting to create happiness in your subconscious. It is your belief that life is better than death and to be happy you must survive. Don’t think that I am trying to say you should take death before survival; I am only making this fact aware to your conscious.

Consequently, you should now understand that all of your actions are derived from the desire to be happy. Back to my initial statement: you will never be truly happy. We understand that all actions come from the desire to be happy, so what would we do if we were truly happy? Nothing. Well, nothing different from our daily activity. If what we were already doing made us perfectly happy, then there would be no need to do different. Of course, the debate in this is: the human mind would become idle if in a continuum of events. It is my belief that the conscious mind can be “bored”, but the subconscious can not. The subconscious in this case is only aware of happiness and the alter. Boredom would be in the latter thus making the subconscious not happy.

It is a hard concept to grasp: the understanding that you will never be happy on the subconscious level. It is just a matter of being aware that the actions that are not a part of the normal routine are only done to achieve a better state of happiness. If you find yourself totally happy on the conscious level and subsequently happy and idle on the subconscious level, then you are truly happy. We also must be aware that it is not in human nature to be happy. If we were truly happy, then there would be no advancement of any kind, in areas such as, science, politics, culture, and other possible human advancements.

This is simply a fact of life of which we all must be aware in order to achieve total self-awareness. It is not something that should be depressing, but only a mere truth that is in the subconscious. If you seek to achieve the maximum amount of happiness possible, then being aware of the limits to your own happiness may bring your conscious to a more relaxed state. Whatever your opinion of the subject, I only recommend being aware and realizing the impossibility that we will ever achieve all around happiness in both conscious and subconscious.

I will initiate this post by stating, “I am still in a deep meditation on the subject of this post.” My goal in this writing is to provoke some of the readers to contribute to this with different opinions and views. I consider myself an infant of knowledge in this subject and only wish to bring my point of view to the table.

What are some of the things human beings have an obsession over? On a primitive level we obsess over: matching our image to that of the surrounding populous, discovering the past events that elapsed into the future, injecting our minds with physical effects that have a representation of enjoyment, and other such similar events. Obviously, the essence of this post is the discovering of past events that elapsed into the future observance.

The average human has a pertinacious quest to discover all possible information, within reason of ability, about themselves and those with whom they closely interact. Then you see the abnormal personality, the desire to discover all there is to know about the history of a region, date, and culture, and from time to time an individual has the goal to understand the whole of history. Of course, all of history is not on record, nor do I think it ever will be. Still, human kind pushes on to discover knowledge of previous events. Forget not the other forms of history we commonly seek, most notably the history of science. As an example the CERN Large Hadron Collider an estimated 6.4 billion project. Whatever it is we are studying that involves our history and culture; we never truly give up in our search, thus making it one of the most influential and exasperating quest for knowledge.

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Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Primates, Family: Hominidae, Genus: Homo, Species: H. sapiens.

This is the scientific definition and classification of the human, the definition of our physical place in the universe. The place in which we interact with the laws of the universe, the fellow organisms, and the natural and unnatural structures. For the moment let us forget these things and ask ourselves: how do you define the human as a being?

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As you may know by this time, I am a man of debate. I often find myself in debates with those on the opposite side of my opinion. I always to listen and understand the argument being presented, and then follow up with my own opinion. Sometimes my opinion is changed; sometimes I am the one changing others. All the participants in any debate gain some form of knowledge whatever its value. A short time ago I found myself in one of these debates with someone I know quite well, lets call him Mike. It was typical for Mike and I to get into these discussions because of our clash in social and economic differences. Either way we did indeed start a debate so to speak, and I felt it was worthwhile sharing some of his and my views.