The Pursuit of Happiness.
As I was writing this blog I wondered what the forefathers
thought what “pursuit of happiness” meant to them, and I came about an article
that said: “In composing the Declaration
of Independence, Thomas Jefferson understood that it's up to the individual to
decide what pursuits will cause him or her happiness. However, the Founding
Fathers also understood that government has a responsibility to create a
society where one's right to pursue happiness is guaranteed by social and legal
protections.”
I find this very interesting. I, for one, find the whole
issue totally subjective, because many of us think of happiness as something temporary at times, and others view it as I
state of mind, a choice. A friend of mine used to say: “if a problem has solution
why worry about it, it has a solution; and if it doesn’t why worry there is
nothing you can do”. As I said earlier that
seems to be a choice, that some of us have a hard time living with it. We used
to say that he lived in utopia, or as we used to call it in Spanish “la onda
lira”.
I guess that Jefferson’s view, together with the others who
signed the declaration of independence, had a very different view from the
people whom they owned, and whom they did not consider themselves their equal.
I will not elaborate more on this one because in my conclusion
in the next blog
to be continued
to be continued
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