00:00I have been thinking a lot about why do we tend to immortalize pain.
00:04When I was reading classics and trying to understand why they last,
00:08I understood it's because pain transcends time and space.
00:12The specifics of the situation might change but the feelings doesn't.
00:16We tend to read and write and create because we are trying to make sense of something that is so unbearable and complex.
00:24For the longest time I couldn't understand why don't we immortalize happiness too?
00:28Why does everything we hold in such a high regard has to involve suffering or sacrifice?
00:35And the older I get, I think I understand why.
00:39Pain feels earned. It seems serious. It seems like proof that something mattered.
00:44Joy on the other hand seems accidental.
00:46That's something that we stumbled upon, that we are lucky to experience but not necessarily entitled to.
00:52I think Richard Sai can put it perfectly.
00:54We need whole dictionaries to make sense of our pain but the sound of joy is grunts and moans.
01:01I think we have all learned how to endure rather than to just receive.
01:05And I think that's the reason why we feel like happiness is not something we can trust.
01:11Not because it's shallow but it's almost like we don't have to suffer for it.
01:16And maybe that's the whole point that happiness is something that you can just have and that seems too good to be true.
01:23And if we don't think about it, you know, we also have to suffer for it.
01:28And if you don't have to suffer for it, you don't have to suffer for it.
01:32And if you don't have to get who, you know, we can prove it.
01:33And if you don't feel like happiness is not something that you need to live in such a long way.
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