Warning: This sounds like I am upset and I am really not, I am just wondering and pondering on the fact that we really know very little about what makes us happy. I am truly highly excited about recent events that have occured in my life.
Why does it seem that when we are really happy or celebrating, we strive to be closer to stupidity. When people are really excited they tend to get drunk and then enjoy some of the simplest pleasures, like dancing, singing, eating, rides, and sex. The most pleasure causing thing in our lives as most people think is sex, which is also on of the most animalistic traits left in humans. As humans we have strived for centuries to define ourselves better than animals, on a different level than everything else alive on the planet. When it comes to take time to enjoy life we still only rely on the most simple and animalistic pleasure though eating, drinking, sex, and sleep.
So does that mean in the end we are all truly envious of the simple, easy, and uneducated. We work hard and learn many things so we will have time to wallow in simple pleasures? As our lives have become more complex has it truly brought more meaning to life? We go through our work and our jobs, and we try to feel important, but all we have changed is how we live, where we live, and who we know.