While happiness is a feeling that is difficult to reach by its nature, trying to build happiness on lies brings complete unhappiness.
One of the biggest mistakes that a person can never get rid of is to think that he came to the world to be happy… Maybe that is why all the unhappiness we experience is so heavy. We are constantly chasing happiness, and we often hit walls. As Freud said, “Man wants to be happy; that’s why he’s screwed.”
While many things must come together to be happy, only one reason to be unhappy is enough. I will never go back and say we were happy before. I’ll just say we’re more unhappy now.
On the one hand, we live in a great ‘post-truth’ age. I don’t know if breakfast has anything to do with happiness, but I’m sure post truth has something to do with unhappiness. One of the important concepts describing our day is post truth. This concept describes a situation where truth loses its importance. In the age of the internet, we no longer know what is true and what is false. A politician comes out and says something, and a crowd believes everything he says in line with their beliefs and follows him. In some cases, even if the politician’s rhetoric is proven otherwise, the audience does not accept this and may say “no, I believe it”. And that politician is getting more and more impudent about lying.
Anyone can create content on social media. Everyone can share their own opinions on false and false things they hear. Millions of content… A giant chaos where lies and truths are mixed. Perhaps the history of humanity has never seen so many lies and wrongs together.
All these lies are stealing two things from us. A; hurts our sense of justice, two; It destroys our hope. A person clings to life with his belief in justice and can only continue to hope in this way. We need truth to be fair.
With the effect of this post-truth era, justice has been hurt even more. Because now it has become difficult to distinguish between good and bad, beautiful and ugly, innocent and guilty. In the human world, justice always hurts. While factors such as the law on the side of the strong, inequalities in income distribution, geographical disadvantages have worn away our sense of justice, we have also fallen into this post-truth times. In short, we were confused about what to believe and what to trust. When the situation is like this, come and be happy…
Yes, this is the situation… But we do not stop trying every way to be happy and feel good about ourselves. We try to be handsome/beautiful/cool on our social media profiles by drowning our photos with thousands of filters. We envy fit bodies and sign up for sports, and we just take a few photos from the mirror of the living room and soon quit the sport. Some enthusiastically enroll in yoga in Nişantaşı or on Bağdat Street, but soon give up.
Others resort to plastic surgery and recreate themselves. All but all to make ourselves feel better… We are chasing happiness and pleasure with all these things we do and these false worlds we create. Pleasure passes and soon our soul gives way to the same emptiness and meaninglessness. We can never attain an inner peace that dominates our souls. We torture ourselves by not accepting ourselves as we are and having to do dozens of things that are imposed on us. For what? To feel better…!
Orwell said, “Happiness is only possible with acceptance”. In this age we live in, we should at least try to accept ourselves as we are. This acceptance can be the first step on the way to inner and true peace. Then, if we can give up the idea that we come to be happy, maybe we can achieve ideal happiness.
I decided to write this article while listening to a song by Lalalar. In the song he says: I’d rather not to be happy at all than to be unhappy.
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