Consuming Happiness (The Illusion of Fulfilment)

It would not be until the 1960s and 1970s that the New Age movement exploded in the United States and Europe. When in the middle of the democratic depression of consumerism, happiness appears as the only desire that cannot be bought. But what is happiness? To speak of happiness is to start a propaganda campaign. Because happiness is just that, the tool that institutions and corporations have used to influence the mood of people. Happiness is the state of being in connection with what is. Lions are happy when they can be lions, you just have to see a Lion in a Zoo to simply realise that he is not happy. Because he can’t be, because he can’t live. Children are happy, because they are in connection with what they are, they cease to be happy the moment that connection fails.

Are you happy? What is it that prohibits you not to be? What is it that leads you to be? We all stopped being happy once, because we wanted to be adults. We wanted what they had, the apparent happiness that comes from the freedom of adulthood, in a society that is only for adults. Without knowing that we were never going to be as happy as we were in those moments, we renounced our childhood, to such a degree that we had forgotten 80% of what happened there ... We have forgotten the happiest moments of our lives! Because what adults teach you as you get older is that the only thing that matters to remember is the most unhappy. They don’t remember the bird that sang for them while they waited for the bus, or the person who smiled at them. They will only tell you that the bus was late and that someone tried to sneak in. Being happy has been linked to feeling full, full. That is why we have bought so many things, why we continue to invest our time in money, to be able to continue buying. To be able to feel “full”, fully. Because abundance is linked to fullness, the more I cover the more I will have, for which the happier I will be. Without realising that the only thing that we have been collecting have been unhappy memories, with little glimpses of possible happiness. By acquiring the material needs that we thought we needed.

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