I know I have the polar opposite personality from you, but that doesn't mean I don't see the wisdom in how you live (i.e., laughing out loud and enjoying yourself to the fullest). There's nothing childish or immature about being happy...after all, to cite your own example, Santa Claus is not a young kid, but a mature, wise man who laughs like a bowl full of jelly.
I think that a lot of folks buy into the "ignorance is bliss" idea, and they extrapolate from that the idea that bliss is ignorance. It simply isn't true...two of my best friends, both valedictorians of their classes, are some of the happiest (and goofiest) people you'll ever meet.
I think jealousy play a role in there, too...people resent happiness in others if they don't have it themselves, and from there it's easy for them to twist it into a sour-grapes insult.
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Date: 2005-03-27 07:20 am (UTC)I think that a lot of folks buy into the "ignorance is bliss" idea, and they extrapolate from that the idea that bliss is ignorance. It simply isn't true...two of my best friends, both valedictorians of their classes, are some of the happiest (and goofiest) people you'll ever meet.
I think jealousy play a role in there, too...people resent happiness in others if they don't have it themselves, and from there it's easy for them to twist it into a sour-grapes insult.