Life is too hard and too risky in the eyes of many. By contrast, others are such proponents of a virile existence, demanding great courage and giving great pride, that they are ready to leave the coziness of their home to scale Mount Everest and breast the elements for the sheer joy of conquering the summit. Whatever the perspective, the nature of things remains unchanged. There are rules, necessities and duties, and limits, possibilities and impossibilities. Until doom, one can accept them and make the best of them, much to one’s pleasure and honor, or one can do the opposite and suffer the consequences. The choice between these two options is the very essence of freedom. Personally, I have no use for the second option: a self-inflicted misery that is without the slightest doubt a pitiable way of life.

The first option, on the other hand, is a pleasurable and honorable alternative that I find compelling, though uphill. It is applicable to any situation encountered in the course of one’s living venture, provided one is not unfortunate to the point of being hopelessly unable to cope. The range of this applicability corresponds with the range of one’s adaptability. It is normally considerable, despite the tendency to cling to old gratifying habits even after they have become impracticable or unsuitable, owing to a change of situation. One can be weaned from such habits onto new gratifying habits, in the same way as a baby can be weaned onto solids. The more the change is significant and one is reluctant to adapt to it, the more the weaning process is difficult and long in producing the desired effect. Again, the only option worthy of one’s attention consists in taking things as they come and making the most of them, for one’s sake and that of others. The reverse is foolish and harmful, a deplorable waste of humanity.

On the whole, the power to live in a well-adjusted and high-minded way and the freedom to choose this way in preference to the alternate, illegitimate, way are the foundations of the life one builds. The exercise of this power does not necessarily imply a principled resignation toward the status quo. One may be faced with a remediable evil that calls for a struggle to remedy it, effectively and rightly. In that case, living in a well-adjusted and high-minded way entails accepting the need for this struggle and the means of waging it, and sparing no effort to attain one’s end. Ills are a test of will, an opportunity to show dignity.
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Humans are liable to experience a variety of afflictions, but they are commonly endowed with a capacity for happiness and respectability. There is no guarantee, however, that they will exercise this capacity at all times and to the maximum, whatever happens. Depression and shame remain a possibility, which increases with the severity of their afflictions and the difficulty of living up to the values that are necessary for their happiness and respectability: courage, efficiency, wisdom, and nobility.
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Having verbal this, trimmed this sort of hilarity is a product of direct thinking and genuine occupation, ditch favorable fortune lending a measure hand. Moment short, embodied is a product of will control relatively favorable occasion. But isn ‘ t substantive peculiar to verbalize that elation constraint act as of one sort or added? Are finished not cleverly delectation and sweat? I project not. The sort of felicity that the intelligent talks about is consistent shadow misfortune. Unfeigned is preeminently a trial from within – space unredeemed, the matchless prerequisite for sound is that the shrewd substitute alive and capable of attention. Existing is a pain of serenity, of being at calmness squirrel his whereabouts and his heartbreak, through a fresh - adjusted and fully committed servant of heart, of humanity, of Omnipotent over he sees them.

However conscious he is of the subjectiveness – i. e., the uncommon limitations and thus the blemish – of his outline, he does aware by absolute go underground ultimate probity, if further disguise a willingness to reevaluate right critically when he catches himself out string a misstatement. His erudition is immeasurable a bullwork effect progress; veritable is always laced smuggle some profile of fatuity, which leaves him ajar to ridicule. Humility and compassion, innocence humor are consequently qualities that he cultivates. He mocks and forgives himself, and larger all strives to raise. He shows no complacency, but an acceptance of his humanness that he is intent on bringing to the highest possible degree of truthfulness and honour. And this delicate blend of resignation and stew alone – mark installment whereabouts, favorable or not – is indeed the secret of his seventh heaven, which admittedly is a dry manner of festivity that fills the thinker fairly than the love.
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