Pursuit of Happiness

Do what makes you happy,they said..Do something you love,they said...what they didn't say was it comes at a price.(unless you're a pimp or a pornstar or something,in which case a big thumbs up to you)

Its ok,Joe.

For anyone who's seen Wall Street or even someone who hasnt you (you need to watch it) can remember Gordan Gekko's famous "Greed is good" quote.

When i first saw the movie i never really got the quote..it seemed rather ill conceived to me,i mean greed is an endless pit whereby the person exhausts himself in an endless effort to satisfy himself without ever reaching satisfaction.

How can that be good? I mean why would you want to keep wanting more when you already had everything?

Weed is better

As time goes on tho,you tend to identify more and more with this quote and the whole being content with what you have goes out the window.

Some people might disagree on this but the price of being content is completely surrendering your ambition.

Being content means your satisfied with where you are,happy how everything's going and wouldn't mind carrying on the current life for the rest of eternity.

On paper thats what life is about,no?..Being happy,being with the people you love and in the comfort zone.

The time your boat starts rocking is when you want a phase shift,when you want something more.When you do this,the tide your swimming against seems stronger,the size of the waves coming at you seem larger and everything seems like its falling apart.

You'll probably start thinking why on earth you ever wanted more in the first place.But thats the way the cookie crumbles and once you do want more its tough going back to that content phase of life.

While i'm not saying that every ambitious person isn't happy and that every happy person isn't ambitious,there's just a fine line in these things.Sometimes you can't always get what you want and this irks some more than others.

The sad part about finally getting that thing you worked your ass for, like a new job,a promotion,a better house etc.. is after the initial period or so you'll find something about it that doesnt satisfy you and you'll set a new position to reach,a higher target,forgetting the journey you had to make to get to this place itself.

You can look at it in two ways,Either the person's a prick for being so greedy and never happy with what he has or he's just a very hardworking ambitious chap who can get whatever he sets his sight on.

Its a tough call,would you rather be the rich lonely owner or the fairly happy average employee?

At the end of the day tho,happiness trumps everything and when you're on your deathbed you wont be thinking about the money you made so i'd just about lean to the happy employee side,maybe that'll change with time.

Modern day regrets may differ

Anyways,thats just my personal view.I hate it when clichéd quotes are true but the whole "Do what makes you happy" crap actually does makes sense.

So what would YOU prefer? (please dont answer with Male/Female)