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This I Believe I believe that we should choose to be much more appreciative overall as it correlates with increasing complexity of the universe we experience. The increasing complexity in the universe we experience allows for increasing opportunity for more of whatever makes us happy, but at the cost of risk for greater tribulations that make us unhappy. In this essay I refer to beneficial as causing happiness, neutral as not changing amount of happiness, and harmful and decreasing happiness. I believe we should take the most advantage of every situation to be the most happy in the general sense. Possible exceptions that seem to come to mind are those of delay of gratification and fairness of selflessness, which both make us happier in more complex ways, although in the most centric way would make us less happy. Remember that we as individuals in our present throughout our past that we can remember are just the part of the universe and life that is the most real to us. There are many reasons to be the fairest overall, the fairness of selflessness mentioned earlier. Some of these are that it is better overall for life that we are a part of, which is why we feel some of the other negative effects when we harm it. These could be punishment, retaliation, negative feedback feelings like guilt and remorse, and other negative consequences. While benefitting oneself inducing relatively harmful effects on the rest, which may be harmful, neutral, or even beneficial to them, these effects may be felt at any of various times on the others. Whereas, these effects may be felt on one’s same self any time after the present as part of the more central aspect of the same individual, but future time. This forms a sort of rather abstract form of delay of gratification to motivate good actions towards the rest. The relative harmful effects by oneself on one’s same self at the present time are often well worth it by a benefit for the future on usually the same individual that greatly overwhelms the harm, known as the conventional delay of gratification. Now although these exceptions present what is not the most advantageous to who they are acted by we now see that overall they actually are. I believe doing what we think is best to create the most joy and happiness may work out most of the time but it may not always work out, and may make us unappreciative. We may not always know what is best so if we did our best to do so and learn and adapt to apply it to situations in the future we should make an environment of more to appreciate. This is one of the most important things to being the most appreciative and leading a better life, but there are some others. It is difficult to calculate what is the best and although we may have strictly ranked many outcomes in order from best to worst how it actually would have been if each happened we may have perceived differently, often in that the outcome that occurs is the best. These are the well-known concepts fate working out for the better or the slightly different concept of everything happens for a reason. Our understanding of these is retrospect which is a large part of appreciativeness. This is why when others that are wiser and more knowledgeable than us on situations we are deciding on give us advice we on them we should usually follow it if they have good intentions. This may be difficult to do as we feel we are the experts as we are living those experiences the closest, in fact exactly. Another reason we may not completely see what is the best outcome is because we forget about its relatedness to our future and others present and future. Proper research must be done before certain decisions to maintain the best results. When the decision is not that important or the outcomes we are deciding between are too close we should spend little time on the decision or else the stress and unhappiness from deciding may make less happiness overall even if the best decision is chosen than if a decision not as good was chosen which can make us less appreciative. I believe life may seem rather extremely unfair, and in an increasingly complex universe this unfairness overall increases, but when further understood this is not quite the case. It is actually remarkably fair, depending how deep you go. If you go with the way that life is the fairest when you feel that you have it worse compared to others or if that it is less fair when you feel that you have it better compared to others, then you would probably be the most appreciative. As complexity in the universe increases, asymmetries increase, which allows for clumping of resources and patterns and benefits, and as this is applied to people in a disparity things such as economic inequality and other inequalities occur. As people are pleasure hungry these things are soaked up even further and is even harder to fix. When society feels it is too unbalanced there may be a revolution which causes damage, and though wealth and other things such as education may be spread more even people feel unfairness in who earned or deserved it. ||| I believe increasing thankfulness causes increasing appreciativeness. All people have things to be thankful for, and almost all people can comprehend these having the ability to be thankful and should be thankful. This is a major part of an entire holiday called thanksgiving for this. The main purpose is to be thankful and there other many other holidays that have this as a component. One good habit to do is to record in a diary or journal or notebook some other thing like that every time something thankful happens or significant to be thankful for. I do this somewhat be recording anything I feel is significant in my life that happens in a journal and graph some of the data in various notebooks. Just remember to be thankful every time something good happens to you. I believe as the universe increases in complexity we should choose to be more happy and appreciative and exited, unless it does so to create more possible scenarios to allow for the worse scenarios which I very strongly believe it does not. Even if it did emulate this in the extremely unlikely chance it would be just by coincidence that these 3 feeling were hastened, not that the universe had this intention. I believe there is enough evidence to say with certainty that our universe does not follow this destination of unhappiness. The increasing complexity is why we are more unappreciative, but paradoxically it is also why we should not be. ||| I believe that whenever we feel unappreciative we should stop to think of these many reasons to be appreciative for the things we have to be thankful for. Remember that the ultimate goal for all of us is probably to create the most happiness. Being more appreciative makes this task so much easier. And remember without this complexity nobody would be able to read and think about this wonderful essay that made an important contribution to the bettering of this universe for what lives. I feel happier and more appreciative after writing this.