Nowadays people are looking for happiness and success more than the other days.
Some people believe that if they become successful, they will be happy and the others believe in vice versa. How should we analyze that?
Let us talk about the concept of happiness and success by giving some example around ourselves.
Firstly I want to talk about happiness. Some people think that, if they can do everything they wish they will be happy. My parents think a man will be happy if he has a well-paid job and gets married and he will be much happier if he has a beautiful and gentle wife and some polite, pretty and loving children. Unfortunately I don’t think, all of rich married people with an attractive wife and a bunch of good children are happy.
“Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent people and of unhappiness. He lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, four wives and an unknown number of failed romantic relationships, none of which would help him to develop happiness if he knew how.” He was successful but not happy!!!
I think Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know and it is better for them, don’t think about happiness seriously and just try to be successful.
Now let us think about success. Some people think that if they can realize their desires, they will be successful.
My parents wanted me to be a writer by this reason my father named me ‘saeed’ when I was born, as same as SAEED NAFISI. When I was a student at school I wanted to be a teacher at the university and someone like Varner Von Brown (father’s missile science). I studied electronic engineering and have worked as engineer also I have worked as a witty in some newspapers and journals for 4 years but I knew that I would never be an outstanding novelist or famous writer.
I became manager of a national aerospace project when I was 27 years old also a teacher at the university. Being or not being as a writer has never any effects in my life but they think that they were not successful about me while apparently I was successful in my career as an engineer, as a writer, as a manager and as a mushroom cultivator because all of my childhood ambitions were realized. Don’t mention that I had no sense about success!!! When we are child we have a lot of wishes for future. When we are adult, all of childhood desires might be realized but we have a lot of new wishes again and the story will be continued. For example: now I am so interested in studying financial modeling perfectly and I wish I am be able to make an approximate model of Iran economy. Perhaps I have known success with no sense about happiness again too!!!!!.
We know that children develop along four streams: intellectual, physical, emotional and social. Education systems in countries whose primary interest is in wealth accumulation encourage heroes in movies, war and sports, but not in intellectual development. But why?
Super intelligent people manage, but few reach the top of the business or social ladder.
People who are socially inept and who have trouble coping emotionally with the exigencies of life would not be among those you should expect to be happy although they might be successful. Maybe we can say that happiness has a direct relation with emotional abilities of people and their expectations of life. Also it might be in connection with their life style and standard of living.
In other words success has a direct relation to do right things to make progress and happiness has a direct relation to do things right so that we wish to do.
Unfortunately I don’t have any sense about happiness or success I might know success a little but I don’t know if I am happy or not. I am too busy to think about it therefore I am not the right person to talk about it!!!!
Saeed N
I3
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Daredevils
What is danger? If you ask this question from two people, you may get completely different answers because something which is considered dangerous to someone maybe is an entertainment to the other!
Jumping from high height like from towers or rocks is an example of dangerous things which is a kind of sport for some people. Jumping from a place that a lot of others can't even dare to get close to the edge and look down, is a regular act for them.
Actually, getting excited and thrilled is the most important reason to do dangerous deeds for whom does them. Everybody knows that driving with a high speed is dangerous but many people do it because they get excited by doing it. But when danger gets more serious the number of people who do it decreases, and here is the point when Daredevils come up.
Daredevils do things that other ordinary people can't even imagine and they just do it because they love to get challenged and it gets their adrenalin going.
In my personal opinion everybody needs to get excited somehow, but the levels of danger are different for everyone. For me driving fast on a highway is the most dangerous thing I might do in my life but jumping from a tower! I'll never do that!
Taher A
I3
Jumping from high height like from towers or rocks is an example of dangerous things which is a kind of sport for some people. Jumping from a place that a lot of others can't even dare to get close to the edge and look down, is a regular act for them.
Actually, getting excited and thrilled is the most important reason to do dangerous deeds for whom does them. Everybody knows that driving with a high speed is dangerous but many people do it because they get excited by doing it. But when danger gets more serious the number of people who do it decreases, and here is the point when Daredevils come up.
Daredevils do things that other ordinary people can't even imagine and they just do it because they love to get challenged and it gets their adrenalin going.
In my personal opinion everybody needs to get excited somehow, but the levels of danger are different for everyone. For me driving fast on a highway is the most dangerous thing I might do in my life but jumping from a tower! I'll never do that!
Taher A
I3
Friday, March 21, 2008
Do you think that people should be let to be involved in some decision making regarding their community?
Democracy
During the history democracy has been a controversial issue of the globe. The historical records show that there have been individuals who have taken the control of their community based on their own discretion. It is believed that these gifted individuals have the special capability and ability to rule the society rather than the ordinary people.
As it is clearly obvious all the sciences related to human kind and his issues are extremely critical and controversial including psychology, sociology, politics and etc. There have been various theoretic and practical opinions presented by philosophers regarding humanity. It seems that by passing decades most nations have grasped the idea which demonstrates the best way to govern a society is to engage the nation directly. That’s why a kind of legislature namely parliament, congress, council are made by the election in countries to make the laws in order to control the communities. It is said that people can be involved in social decision making by assignment of their tasks to people who are able to consider all their needs and requirements in a society. In this way decisions are not made by a superpower individual who has been elected by himself or at most by few special people rather numerous opinions are scooped up to reach an agreement and make a single decision.
By taking a deeper look at the issue it is perceived that there must be a lot of disadvantages in this method of ruling a community as well as in the way of dictatorship. For example, is there enough chance and possibility for a thickly populated nation to recognize some wise and talented individuals to assign them this difficult and complicated task? Or what are the efficient criteria to elect those people? As some qualifications are defined for the electors to give them the right to vote, a query comes to mind that who deserves to vote?
It is seen in many countries that despite the fact that people have been given the right to elect the legislators, the governing process of those countries have gone extremely badly and wrongly. Although in this regard so many aspects rather than the election procedure should be considered, the most important matter in my opinion is the primary stage of democracy and it is definitely the election process. How do ordinary people concern the election? How are their beliefs, opinions and way of thinking shaped? Isn’t it that even in a democratic society superpowers influence other’s opinions extensively in a very hidden and potential way? It wrongly seems that they think and decide based on their own discretion but they are permanently under the influence by higher people. That’s why it can be easily said that dictatorship is still running, doing its duties and affecting everything but in a different way, under the cover of democracy.
As the failure of democracy can not be neglected, in my opinion and as a conclusion, we should hope some thoughtful dictators come and dictate RIGHTLY if a community intends to be ruled in a good way as a utopia and if it intends to be governed in a bad way, we have to let people free to be influenced spontaneously by insufficient higher powers. (Am I kidding? I am not sure!)
Nasim Gh
UI2
During the history democracy has been a controversial issue of the globe. The historical records show that there have been individuals who have taken the control of their community based on their own discretion. It is believed that these gifted individuals have the special capability and ability to rule the society rather than the ordinary people.
As it is clearly obvious all the sciences related to human kind and his issues are extremely critical and controversial including psychology, sociology, politics and etc. There have been various theoretic and practical opinions presented by philosophers regarding humanity. It seems that by passing decades most nations have grasped the idea which demonstrates the best way to govern a society is to engage the nation directly. That’s why a kind of legislature namely parliament, congress, council are made by the election in countries to make the laws in order to control the communities. It is said that people can be involved in social decision making by assignment of their tasks to people who are able to consider all their needs and requirements in a society. In this way decisions are not made by a superpower individual who has been elected by himself or at most by few special people rather numerous opinions are scooped up to reach an agreement and make a single decision.
By taking a deeper look at the issue it is perceived that there must be a lot of disadvantages in this method of ruling a community as well as in the way of dictatorship. For example, is there enough chance and possibility for a thickly populated nation to recognize some wise and talented individuals to assign them this difficult and complicated task? Or what are the efficient criteria to elect those people? As some qualifications are defined for the electors to give them the right to vote, a query comes to mind that who deserves to vote?
It is seen in many countries that despite the fact that people have been given the right to elect the legislators, the governing process of those countries have gone extremely badly and wrongly. Although in this regard so many aspects rather than the election procedure should be considered, the most important matter in my opinion is the primary stage of democracy and it is definitely the election process. How do ordinary people concern the election? How are their beliefs, opinions and way of thinking shaped? Isn’t it that even in a democratic society superpowers influence other’s opinions extensively in a very hidden and potential way? It wrongly seems that they think and decide based on their own discretion but they are permanently under the influence by higher people. That’s why it can be easily said that dictatorship is still running, doing its duties and affecting everything but in a different way, under the cover of democracy.
As the failure of democracy can not be neglected, in my opinion and as a conclusion, we should hope some thoughtful dictators come and dictate RIGHTLY if a community intends to be ruled in a good way as a utopia and if it intends to be governed in a bad way, we have to let people free to be influenced spontaneously by insufficient higher powers. (Am I kidding? I am not sure!)
Nasim Gh
UI2
People should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing
Have you ever thought about the trend which has led you to become the person you are now? In which stages of your life you were the only one to decide? When was the time you just had to follow the rules imposed on you?
Obligation is the word which might seem unpleasant for the people whom all their attempts are directed to achieve freedom and there might be some people who feel the power to deny any rules. Although it is a doubtless right to be free, there exists a fact: obligation is not only a reality but also it can sometimes(of course sometimes!) be enjoyable in the end!
Do you know when the first obligation in your life happened? When your mother gave birth to you and nobody asked you whether you liked to be here or not… You were just crying…Are you upset about it now or appreciate it? Another situation out of your control is when you lose someone close. No one can describe the pain and the feeling, but after a while aren’t you a more mature person who pays attention to the deeper aspects of life?
The pain of out of control things sometimes brings us the sweetness of being profound. Life is full of dos and don’ts and maybe it is meaningless without them. So fight against the obligations to grow and accept them to relieve! It includes no contrast, both have the same aim : to make you a better human.
Sepide P
UI2
Obligation is the word which might seem unpleasant for the people whom all their attempts are directed to achieve freedom and there might be some people who feel the power to deny any rules. Although it is a doubtless right to be free, there exists a fact: obligation is not only a reality but also it can sometimes(of course sometimes!) be enjoyable in the end!
Do you know when the first obligation in your life happened? When your mother gave birth to you and nobody asked you whether you liked to be here or not… You were just crying…Are you upset about it now or appreciate it? Another situation out of your control is when you lose someone close. No one can describe the pain and the feeling, but after a while aren’t you a more mature person who pays attention to the deeper aspects of life?
The pain of out of control things sometimes brings us the sweetness of being profound. Life is full of dos and don’ts and maybe it is meaningless without them. So fight against the obligations to grow and accept them to relieve! It includes no contrast, both have the same aim : to make you a better human.
Sepide P
UI2
Friday, March 14, 2008
Do you think that advertising can influence people's behavior and attitude?
Modern advertisements contain hidden messages. Implicit in the advertisement showing the pretty girl or the handsome boy in the new car or the smiling children round the packet of washing powder is the message that if we buy the product, we also achieve success and happiness.
It is a subtle approach since it seeks to exploit our secret dreams, and it is inescapable since advertising is ubiquitous.
Giant street billboard and jingles on television bombard us from all sides. They brainwash us into believing that we can realize our ambitions quickly and easily.
On the other hand, defenders of advertising say that it is beneficial. Advertising is informative. Advertisements tell us about useful new products. They brighten our lives with color and music. They increase demand, stimulate industry and so keep prices down.
Whether for or against advertising, most people would agree that some kind of watchdog body, appointed by the government or by the advertising industry itself, is necessary to keep standards of honesty and to discourage the more blatant types of misleading advertisements.
Sara Z
UI2
Modern advertisements contain hidden messages. Implicit in the advertisement showing the pretty girl or the handsome boy in the new car or the smiling children round the packet of washing powder is the message that if we buy the product, we also achieve success and happiness.
It is a subtle approach since it seeks to exploit our secret dreams, and it is inescapable since advertising is ubiquitous.
Giant street billboard and jingles on television bombard us from all sides. They brainwash us into believing that we can realize our ambitions quickly and easily.
On the other hand, defenders of advertising say that it is beneficial. Advertising is informative. Advertisements tell us about useful new products. They brighten our lives with color and music. They increase demand, stimulate industry and so keep prices down.
Whether for or against advertising, most people would agree that some kind of watchdog body, appointed by the government or by the advertising industry itself, is necessary to keep standards of honesty and to discourage the more blatant types of misleading advertisements.
Sara Z
UI2
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