I am Your Sunshine

The Thing with Unhappiness

Jan 17th, 2007 by Ashley

People often tell themselves (and sometimes others) that if I had this and this, if I were in a different place, if I were with so and so, I’d be a happy. But it usually doesn’t work that way. Often times, we get something we think we want but all we feel is lost and emptiness. Like Von Sidell in Everyone Says I Love You thought she met her Mr. Right (even though it’s just the package) and lived in the city of her dreams, then she realized that it’s not what she really wanted. Sometimes, it’s just a thing you hold on to while fighting through your life, and sometimes it’s just an excuse, a valid reason for the present unhappiness. We’re not happy because we don’t have this or that; we’re not happy because things don’t turn out the way we want them to be. Without them, we’re unhappy with no good reasons. Then what do we do? How do we face our lives? Can we stand firmly saying we’re not happy because we aren’t, or simply claim we’re clueless?

In the pursuit of our happiness, we’re trying. Is the journey painful? Is there any pleasant encounter? Have you reached it? Is that really what you want?

Posted in Think | 21 Comments

21 Responses to “The Thing with Unhappiness”

on 17 Jan 2007 at 20:33 pm1貓

I agree with this :
Sometimes, it’s just a thing you hold on to while fighting through your life, and sometimes it’s just an excuse, a valid reason for the present unhappiness.
on 17 Jan 2007 at 21:25 pm2Ashley

貓貓~
on 17 Jan 2007 at 23:58 pm3Fall Zhao

From time to time, things change,
The whole world and ourselves always change,
Maybe, sometimes, the situation is just,
At that moment, it was what we wanted, we really wanted,
and the next moment, something changed.
on 18 Jan 2007 at 0:52 am4Ashley

Agree. But I’m talking about the ultimate dream you have. It’s sometimes just something you put your hopes on, or you blame your unhappiness for not having it, or, yes, as you say, something we believe we want but as time goes by, it’s not really for you anymore and you just don’t know it.

No matter what, we’re all trying, right :)
on 18 Jan 2007 at 2:00 am5Fall Zhao

我以為這是外國人的BLOG, 原來是華人的, 早知道就不用使出我的破英文
on 18 Jan 2007 at 2:07 am6Ashley

明明下面沒幾篇就是用中文寫的 orz
(上面的comment也是留中文呀 XD)

請問你是…? ;)
on 18 Jan 2007 at 18:16 pm7Fall Zhao

我是從Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG連過來的路人甲
Blogroll
這裡-> o Ashley’s BLOG
o Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG
o Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG for Class
o Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG for Networking
o Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG for Work
o Zonble
o 布丁大長輩
o 我弟的 Blog
o 汪汪大長輩
o 沛長輩的 BLOG
o 火星人大長輩
o 睡大長輩
o 蔡依林的部落格
我以為這是一個技術BLOG,或技術人的個人BLOG,
當時版面上看得到的都是英文,人名地名也都是英文,
唯一的一個中文字是’貓’,我以為那是其他語文在中文環境下的亂碼 *我呆*
on 18 Jan 2007 at 19:05 pm8Ashley

XD

gslin 是我同學…
他那列blogroll裡大概只有我專門在寫這些風花雪月的東西吧. 完全沒有一點點理工人的樣子~
on 19 Jan 2007 at 3:53 am9gslin

對不起是我的錯 Q_Q
on 19 Jan 2007 at 8:47 am10Ashley

什麼啦為什麼是你的錯? XD
on 22 Jan 2007 at 7:35 am11noelle

me me!
就是一直不去學設計～
然後一直有個what if………..

我沒有追逐夢想的勇氣…………….不用冒險的路總是比較輕鬆
on 22 Jan 2007 at 9:35 am12Ashley

same here… 不過我這學期要去拿課了! 不試試是不會知道那究竟是不是自己的夢想, 還是只是個用來安慰自己的藉口.

甯甯加油! (要不要當點心師傅?)
on 22 Jan 2007 at 13:59 pm13貓

我也要去學室內設計
on 22 Jan 2007 at 14:18 pm14Ashley

貓你為什麼三更半夜醒著!?
on 22 Jan 2007 at 23:01 pm15FZ

看起來不用冒險的路有時候
就像待在緩緩加熱的田雞湯裡, 雖是凜冽寒冬, 也溫暖如春
on 23 Jan 2007 at 9:34 am16Ashley

看起來不用冒險的路有時候自己也是會如坐針氈最怕一輩子就這麼走下去了~
on 23 Jan 2007 at 18:43 pm17fax_modem

“看起來不用冒險的路有時候自己也是會如坐針氈最怕一輩子就這麼走下去了~ ”

same here. I am always wondering if my choice is right, and always wondering the path I didn’t choose. And sometimes when you take the high road, you still don’t know if that’s the right way to go…and you can never know, you can only keep walking until the end…
on 24 Jan 2007 at 2:06 am18FZ

> 看起來不用冒險的路有時候自己也是會如坐針氈最怕一輩子就這麼走下去了~

進不敢攻退不願守
on 24 Jan 2007 at 2:15 am19FZ

I’m Your Sunshine 下面的小字換了, 好像一直在換
我比較喜歡我第一次看到的那段, 挺喜歡的

我英文不是頂好, 那段文字在我看來是說,
我願作你的陽光,
然而我也明白, 人世蒼莽,
即使陽光粲然, 有時你仍會感到荒寒
on 24 Jan 2007 at 3:39 am20noelle

不過給自己留一個藉口
生活似乎會比較輕鬆

去試了卻發現自己依舊是這樣一事無成
還蠻令人傷心的

雖然我會說“如果“
但不會說“早知道“
對於自己的選擇我不會太後悔所以每一個選擇更要格外認真
on 24 Jan 2007 at 9:28 am21Ashley

fmodem: 有時覺得是不是到了這個年紀 (well, I’m guess we’re around the same age :p) 就會開始思考這些事…

FZ: 說的好! 另外, 我的 description 是常換 (之前連 blog title 都一天到晚換, 但後來覺得那樣不好.) 我想你說的是 It can be cold even when the sun brightly shines. 不過你把我的意境想的太美了. I’m you sunshine 這句話其實非常狂妄, 而下面那句… 一方面是因為這陣子天氣實在太冷了(動不動就到零下), 另一個意思… 比較personal就不解釋了
(不好意思讓你幻想破滅? XD)

noelle: 對你也許吧. 我的生活已經太輕鬆不能再輕鬆了 XD 所以我在逼自己不走輕鬆的路~ (雖然跟絕大多數的人比起來還是很輕鬆 :p)

words are for those with promises to keep

The Thing with Unhappiness

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