{"id":752,"date":"2010-08-28T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2022-04-10T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:59:03","slug":"q16-and-q26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/28\/q16-and-q26\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions 16 and 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

As requested by Bianca<\/a>!<\/p>\n

q16. How come the things that make you happy don\u2019t make everyone happy?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s an interesting question. There is an assumption in it, though- because some of the things that make me happy DO make other people happy as well. At the same time, nothing can ever make everybody happy- because people have such diverse tastes.<\/p>\n

Some things that make me happy are very straightforward and simple that everybody should be able to relate to.<\/strong> Spending time with my family and friends. A good rest after a hard day’s work. Accomplishing something that you set your mind out to do. Learning something new, or improving an existing skill. Making good decisions that have favourable outcomes.<\/p>\n

There are also perhaps some things that make me happy that not many people would be able to relate to.<\/strong> I like public speaking, which a lot of people find terrifying. I like to be challenged, and I like to be proven wrong. \u00a0I’ve learnt to appreciate discomfort, which perhaps is not as common as it should be.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, I think the only real reason why different things make different people happy is because we never really get around to getting to appreciate things from each other’s perspectives.<\/strong> I’m pretty sure that I would love to dance if I learnt how. Some people find happiness in the misery of others. I think we can all relate to that to some degree- but some of us learn to transcend it, and others don’t.<\/p>\n

q26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That really is quite a frightening dilemma. My honest, immediate response would be that I would rather lose my old memories so that I can make new ones- because I believe that I have more life to live than I have lived so far, and I have enough faith in myself to believe that I would be able to make new memories that mean just as much to me as those I already have right now, if not more.<\/p>\n

Additional interesting points to consider- do my friends and family know who I am, and can they recognize me, and tell me about my past? Also, considering that my memories would surely influence my values and prejudices to some (if not a large) degree, would I still be the same person without my memories? I wonder what modern neuroscience has to say on the subject. I think it is highly unlikely for anybody to ever completely forget everything<\/strong>– I believe that’s called retrograde amnesia- because our long term memories are surely tied to other parts of our subconscious, and our mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As requested by Bianca! q16. How come the things that make you happy don\u2019t make everyone happy? That’s an interesting question. There is an assumption in it, though- because some of the things that make me happy DO make other people happy as well. At the same time, nothing can… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[116,627],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-conversations-2","tag-revisit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-c8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}