Sophistication of Joy
More sophisticated lifes have more sophistication in joy.
For bacteria, they just eats and reproduce whenever they can. I guess they don't find other joys. For us, only eating good food is joyful. And even that, over eating is not joyful. If you eats lobsters whole day with unlimited supply, pretty soon eating lobster may seems more like a difficult task than being joyful. As a part, hunger is a necessary components in bringing the best joy in eating. I have that experience of after climbing a mountain whole day that a very ordinary meal brings my most satisfaction of eating.
Human is the most sophiscated life so far on earth. We takes joy in most diversified ways. We still takes great joy in having sex and raising kids, but most may argue those being the only joy or even the greatest joy in life. (On think of that, maybe the first purpose of life for God is to make us survive as whole life being; then God has much more other grand purpose for his life experiment? Not that matters to us :)) Nowadays, plenty of people takes joy in homosexual relationships, kids free life, ... whatever, just doing whatever one finds joy is pretty meaningful in life.
I guess I have to say something about smartness in taking joy, otherwise I may sound like encouraging people to reckless pursue joys.
Is breaking into a restaurant and eats then leave without paying joyful? It could be if you were not beaten while you eats and the food is good, and you were in that eating mood. Then the next few hours or days or even more, you probably will not be as joyful as you would be if you had followed the social rules. So while there is nothing wrong in persuing the immediate joy, most of human beings are smart enough to take as much joys (not just in one hour, but in days, weeks, years, and even whole lifespan) as possible. Most of us seems also care a lot about magnitude of joy. We seems value the joy of receiving a life-time award so much that we may spend many days or years of not-so-joyful time to get that. Whether that great joy worth those no-joy time varies from person to person though.
Another sophistication appears when some activity, or things seems very joyful to some people, at sometime, while it does not bring much joyness for other people. Some is straight forward to understand. Eating when you need eat is more joyful than eating extra (at least for me). Some people find chatting with friends or even chatting with strangers very joyful, while some may find talking to machines may joyful. There are certain grand joyness we share. Such as being rewarded by society from your creativity or hard work. And there could be different paths leading to certain grand joyness that may vary in joyfulness for different people. If you can, choose and enjoy your life to the maximum.
For bacteria, they just eats and reproduce whenever they can. I guess they don't find other joys. For us, only eating good food is joyful. And even that, over eating is not joyful. If you eats lobsters whole day with unlimited supply, pretty soon eating lobster may seems more like a difficult task than being joyful. As a part, hunger is a necessary components in bringing the best joy in eating. I have that experience of after climbing a mountain whole day that a very ordinary meal brings my most satisfaction of eating.
Human is the most sophiscated life so far on earth. We takes joy in most diversified ways. We still takes great joy in having sex and raising kids, but most may argue those being the only joy or even the greatest joy in life. (On think of that, maybe the first purpose of life for God is to make us survive as whole life being; then God has much more other grand purpose for his life experiment? Not that matters to us :)) Nowadays, plenty of people takes joy in homosexual relationships, kids free life, ... whatever, just doing whatever one finds joy is pretty meaningful in life.
I guess I have to say something about smartness in taking joy, otherwise I may sound like encouraging people to reckless pursue joys.
Is breaking into a restaurant and eats then leave without paying joyful? It could be if you were not beaten while you eats and the food is good, and you were in that eating mood. Then the next few hours or days or even more, you probably will not be as joyful as you would be if you had followed the social rules. So while there is nothing wrong in persuing the immediate joy, most of human beings are smart enough to take as much joys (not just in one hour, but in days, weeks, years, and even whole lifespan) as possible. Most of us seems also care a lot about magnitude of joy. We seems value the joy of receiving a life-time award so much that we may spend many days or years of not-so-joyful time to get that. Whether that great joy worth those no-joy time varies from person to person though.
Another sophistication appears when some activity, or things seems very joyful to some people, at sometime, while it does not bring much joyness for other people. Some is straight forward to understand. Eating when you need eat is more joyful than eating extra (at least for me). Some people find chatting with friends or even chatting with strangers very joyful, while some may find talking to machines may joyful. There are certain grand joyness we share. Such as being rewarded by society from your creativity or hard work. And there could be different paths leading to certain grand joyness that may vary in joyfulness for different people. If you can, choose and enjoy your life to the maximum.
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