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You Just CAN'T

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To begin with, I'd like to say that science can prove a great and many things. It can prove how our bodies operate. It can prove how the environment sustains itself. It can prove the chemistry of all material things, living and nonliving.
But one thing I've never heard any scientific data on that we all know for sure exist is the existence of happiness. Sure, I've heard of glands that produce some kind of enzyme or chemical that makes you "feel good", but that's not happiness. That's giddiness. That's the "feelgood formula."
There's really no possible way of expressing happiness, true happiness, without shedding science and adopting philosophy. It's a rare instance, that you must abandon science to explore This Great Unknown called "happiness." Some simply do not believe that happiness exists at all (Mostly because science cannot prove its existence), but I ask you, how is it that if happiness does not exist, why do feelings like sorrow exist? If there is one object, there is its opposite also: happiness and sorrow are the yin and yang of emotion.
One could say that emotions are merely inventions of the human mind. True, but let me state that these "inventions of the human mind" influence us as people, and are reflections of who we are and how we think. The pessismist is almost always sad, while the cheerful optimist finds the bright side of life.
See? Philosophy applied. Science can't really prove the existence of happiness: giddiness, yes, because that's a temporary chemical reaction within the brain. There are many things in this world that produces this chemical: television, video games, beer, sex, materialist spending... But what about happiness? Happiness is a strong, hard-to-defeat emotion that lasts as long as one can force it to.
My parents have found happiness in each other, and have been married for almost 22 years. Half of all marriages end in divorce after maybe two or three years of marriage (If even that). My parents have found happiness in having children, and raising all of them into responsible adults. Someday, their children (Myself included, may the fearing begin) will have children of their own. This is the reward of their parenting, and of their love for each other.
So, philosophically speaking in a way for the science crowd to understand, love is the cause of happiness. My parents have taught me that, and I intend to find that kind of happiness: one that is strong, despite its low points (My parents began their marriage VERY poor, and have had their fair share of high-volume arguments over the years); one that is everlasting, despite my frustration, doubts, and fears; one that is unbreakable, despite the many temptations the world uses to destroy love in favor of material things.
Remember: giddiness is temporary. Happiness lasts you a lifetime. And it all starts with love.
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Spoonfayse's avatar
I don't believe in happiness.
I feel like shit most of the time, for numerous reasons, some of which I cannot explain.

Maybe I'm depressed or something. -__-