Some days ago a friend of mine was studying Schopenhauer and she said she found Schopenhauer stupid, and... it amused me, because that was quite the reaction a had when I first bumped into his work. She said she does not agree with his thoughts on love but he may be right about happiness; and I got amused me once more. As a matter of fact I think that if you read Schopenhauer's work and agree with it immediately, you probably have got some problems. Just call a safe line and say that to the person who picks up the phone, I bet the response will be a shocking silent.
Considered by everyone as a pessimist - and let's agree, for you to be distinguished a pessimistic being a philosopher you really got to put a lot of effort into it -, Schopenhauer would in fact say that life has problems, that living is asking for big trouble and that what would really be a pain on life's ass is both, merriment and vexation. Merriment would be desire. You desire what you don't have and then you achieve what you desired and stop desiring what you've achieved and start desiring something else. So, merriment would three-phasic: desiring what you do not have; getting what you once desired; and start pursuing what you desire next. So we realise that merriment is a pendulum; you either desire what you do not have, or you have it and desire no longer and later start desiring something else.
For example, if you're thirsty, this is how your pendulum works: Thirstiness - desire liquid -, drinks water - satiety, and now everything starts interlinking - desire to wee, desire to go to the bathroom and so on we go, desiring what we do not have at the time and seeking satiety while killing the past desires and creating new ones.
So, do take notice that the logic of merriment is the logic of the bottomless bag, the logic of the impossible satiety, the logic that invariably there will be always something that's not there to complete you as a whole and you shall be invariably seeking what makes you fault.
The second problem of life is the boringness. And boringness - or bore - would be characterized by a network of utilities. Doesn't matter your native language, I'm sure you always heard the word equivalent to "useful". Which by the way, I've always been called by my parents as USEless.
The useful is always understood as a good thing, while the useless a bad thing. However, perceive this, when something is useful its worth is not in it. Thereby, the collyrium is useful because it cleans the eyes. The vehicle is useful because it allows us to displace from-to a place where we were not. Everything that's useful has its worth outside of it. The primary school is just useful to get you to elementary school. The elementary school is useful to get to the secondary school. The secondary school is useful to get to college. College is useful to get a job and thus you realise that every and single utility makes that the worth of things always be encountered outside of them.
Therefore, if someday someone tell you you are useless, well... don't get so sorrowful, for at the moment you are called useless, understand that on your specific case, ultra rare on nowadays world, your worth is WITHIN you, just as much as happiness, which by definition is useless or would you have a answer to the question:
Being happy what for? Happiness is perfectly useless, the good life is perfectly useless, since they worth themselves. Even more in our lives, where finding things that are useless, ergo, useless, makes our chance of a better living augment a lot.
See you on the next post, you useless bastard. I'm outta here!
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