While thinking today, texting and talking with a few of my friends. I started to think, When is one truly happy? In one of the chapters of Einstein's dream that we read for Tok there was a village that was trapped in a single bubble of time where everything was frozen still. The people in this town were living in a single moment of time where they were not moving forward or on with their lives they were in this moment of time trapped.
I was thinking at what point are we truly happy? Would someone be accepting and happy if they were trapped in a happy moment of time? Would they be able to not move on?
I would like to ask to the diploma candidates, Would you individually be accepting of being trapped in this bubble of time of pure happiness?
I personally would need to be ever progressing, I would prefer to be happy while doing this but I need to be ever evolving in myself as a person.
Have you ever heard of or seen the movie "Source Code"? The plot involves an ex-soldier involved in a secret government project that involves the soldier (who is in critical physical condition) entering a program to relive a certain scene to investigate the details of a bombing. At the end of the movie (for reasons I won't spoil), he is trapped in a single moment in time, embracing the one he loves most. The ending is sad yet heartwarming.
ReplyDeleteHowever tempting infinite joy with no recession thereof may be, we derive bliss from relativity. We take the good with the bad. Sometimes things are only happy in light of something tragic. How would you like to be trapped in a moment of infinite sorrow? (U2 has a song about the suicide of a fellow musician entitled "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of) I personally would think an endless quest for self improvement would get tiresome after a while. I want to, but wish I could have twice the feasible lifetime to do so. The slow and easy life is one for me, although I do like structure.
Back to your point, if you leave someone with a good impression of yourself and never see them again and they never hear any more about you, you will permanently be viewed as a good person. Just food for thought.
After being in this moment forever, would it really make you truly happy? After time, i feel there are more moments in which make you happier than that moment because of the changes in circumstance and how we view things after change. I think after spending so much time reliving the memory, it would cease to have the same meaning anymore
ReplyDeleteWell, if you are stuck in the same moment for eternity, you couldn't think. Thinking takes time and you don't have time because time is fixed. You would never know...
ReplyDeleteI'm on Dube's side with this one. How can one be trapped in a bubble of time? In the story that Jeff refers to, I remember the characters stuck in their happiness. However, I feel that the narrator still had the sense of time to make observations and think. Inevitably, one moment leads to a next. To be "stuck in time" persay is to not be thinking/aware of this bubble.
ReplyDeleteI think that to be stuck in a momment of happiness would be terrible. I mean of course it would be great for a little while. (but then what is a little while when you are stuck in time)But I think that I would be worried that it could get better. Who is to say that in that moment of happiness that you are stuck in, is not the happiest moment you will ever experience?
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