Happiness?

 As I dug through the heaps of overdue school emails, I noticed a talk regarding the (below) sitting among the rest of the inconsequential stuff. In fact that's part of the promotional brochure. It really had me thinking how badly the human race had been degraded. I'm not sure if the primitive Man required such talks, but what's certain is that they must've felt certain genuine 'happiness', though perhaps differing in context from what we might experience in this day & age. In a way it just speaks of how pathetic mankind is, to have to be reminded by someone else of what 'happiness' means to them - or to have the term defined in words. Having gone through all that so-called education, it's puzzling as to how something so fundamental to the human psyche can be inadvertently left behind (I'm assuming that 'education' makes us discerning people who are capable of making sound judgements on our own). What then had the Man been painstakingly working for all this time?

The thoughts can't help being veered in the direction of commercialization, though I'm in no position to say that psychological issues may be resolved otherwise. If the Man practiced certain restraint on his life, & lived less 'forcibly', perhaps then he might avoid these unnecessary crises. I'm learning still.. Learning to live out Nirvana. XD

(College & work stand between the individual & Nirvana, & for the time being Nirvana cannot be carried out to the fullest extent)  

The photo above was taken with the monkey traveling with me, somewhere near Pai in Thailand. Much as he was happy then, I was too - truly. Traveling with a make-believe monkey does not make me any madder than someone who mindlessly slogs his life away in an office cubicle. At least I'd been given time for introspection as to what "happiness" entails for me, no doubt my wallet has been the saddest part that one can find existing on my entire being. But in no way I'd want the case to be reversed.