Happiness (IV)

"You see, I understand the relationship between happiness and sex, but why money?"
"There's not only sex in life"
"..."
"For the rest there is money"
"..."
"..."
"But imagine you were rich. Damned rich. What would you change of your life?"
"Not much, I suppose"
"Sounds like you're happy"






"You know the difference between money and sex for me?"
"Go ahead"
"I get money once per month"







"Money does not make you happy. When you are rich, you don't know you are. There's always someone next to you who is richer, and becomes your reference. The more you get, the more you want"
"Like sex"
"I am not so sure. At a certain moment you get saturated with sex. There is an asymptotic limit. You don't want more sex than that. There's no limit to money"
"No. With sex is like with food. When you are starving, you don't care too much on what you eat, is it some dry bread or some boiled potato. If you get food often enough, you go for more elaborated one, and your taste gets more demanding. At the end you want a good champagne, and once you had that, you want a better one. And you explore more combination and new recepies"
"I am hungry"
"So am I"

Hopes and Fears

We had to drive 1000km to be here. The drive was southwards, the easiest direction when you start so high in the North. We hoped on better weather; we hoped on wonderful weather, sun, warmth, a gentle breeze and a shore covered of topless girls. We got cold pouring rain, icy winds, wet grass and the heating turned on. What a delusion. Was our delusion a result of the weather, or a result of our hopes? We feared the weather to remain like that, what a joy when the sun appeared above the hills! It's the power of expectations. Hope makes us unhappy, cause we get deluded, and if not, we just expected to go that way. Fear does not help either. Intensity seems to be the key. Make your life worth living, make every single day worth living. And intensity is the opposite of stability, intensity is change. We didn't notice the sun, but when it disappeared, or reappeared. I forgot I had a knee, up to the moment it started hurting. We forget everything, but what changed us.

Happiness is change.

So change clothes and be happy.

Change hairdo, and be happy.

Change job, change house.

Change partner.

Change children.

Be Happy

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You are animal, animal not so deep inside

I know what you're searching for
I pray you find it on your instinct

Recently listened to:

Damien Rice – 9 : Melancholic, sweet, sad. Makes you feel right if you feel alone.

E.S.T. – Tuesday Wonderland: Another masterpiece from this unbelievable trio. Esbjorn died recently, in a accident. He was 43. What will he be remembered for? Would it be it’s wonderful music (Tueday Wonderland, Seven Days of Falling, Strange Place for Snow, Viaticum)? Would it be Carcrash, a piece I always wanted to dedicate to you, was not for you don’t like this sort of music, and the title is not really suited for dedication.

Hiromi: A note machine gun, on the piano, and with a wonderful bass player and drummer too. Usually I don't like virtuosos, but these are just fantastic, too good to be real. The most amazing thing is to discover that the album Another Mind is a live one!

Roisin Murphy: We are animals. Daniele tells me all the time. You are an animal.

Intolerant

Too much sunlight today. I better use my sunglasses. But if I do, they are too dark. I cannot tolerate too much light, as I cannot tolerate too much dark. I can tolerate less and less these days. Mediocrity above all. Zero tolerance for mediocrity. Except my own mediocrity. As in Het Vergeten Seizoen, a wonderful book, probably the best dutch novel of the year, I find justifications for my own weaknesses, I found reasons for my failures, I overestimate my fears and my capacities. Last weekend I was in Austria, spectator of a wedding. I realized it was an unique moment, all friends together drinking bear and eating schnitzel; and I realized I was not anymore the centre of the Universe, the world did not turn around me, my jokes weren't funny. What a liberation!

De Burcht:

Danny is trapped in a dungeon, and almost gets crazy in the attempt of escaping. Ray, a convicted murderer, is writing Danny’s story, as an exercise of a writing course he is following in jail. Ray is not a professional writer, and his immature style is well rendered by the author – how difficult it must be to expressly write so bad! Danny’s and Ray’s stories start parallel, but in the end they cross and the line between “reality” and fiction get thinner; what’s the word describing the feeling one gets when expectations are met? Alto is the author answer.

Danny dies, Ray escapes, but nothing get solved, when expectations are met.

Don't read this book.

Happiness (III)

Dissertation about happiness cannot ignore the two most (and equally) important factors on which happiness is based:

Money and Sex

These factors are moderately interdependent, as money can give you sex, and sex can give you money, but are absolutely essential for a happy state. All other objects, events or ideas that people think are needed for reaching happiness are just cultural over-structure, self-justification or pity, and have nothing to do with happiness. The amount of money and sex one needs and wants is called Climax. Happiness is the capacity of reach or go behind the Climax Level. The difference between Climax and the actual level of money and sex is why you drink.