Arguing with you around the issue of your graduate school and work, I thought about it carefully, this argument seems to be because of the direction of graduate school or work, in fact, it is the collision of the two of us about the different views of the concept of happiness in life.
So as a person, what kind of future life can make you comfortable and cozy aka happy?
I think your point may be that being well paid and rich and living a life of leisure makes this a blessing. All your efforts and hard work today are paving the way for this kind of life. Even though it's hard work now, bite the bullet and stick with it for this so-called happiness of yours in the future.
But is happiness really such a life?
We can draw on famous people and events from history, or we can logically analyze the authenticity of this view of happiness.
The concubines in the harem around the emperor could be described as well-paid and rich, living a life of leisure, but were they happy? Most mourned their lives. Maybe you have reason to say that they lacked freedom and spouses. But in ancient times by the emperor depreciation suffered injustice exiled officials, such as Qu Yuan Su Shi Lu You, etc., but they are not lack of freedom and spouse, but the same all sad and depressed, they were deprecated, but still officials ah, food and drink do not worry, but also have three wives and six concubines, how also not happy ah? Perhaps you are saying that their lives are too different from the past and thus they are not adapting.
But whatever the reasons, in short, we can use examples to prove that simply being well-paid and rich and living a life of leisure is by no means the ideal of a happy life.
And what kind of life is happiness anyway?
First of all happiness is the judgment of human beings on the quality of their lives. We have to look at what an animal like a human being really needs, and only when all the needs of an animal like a human being are fulfilled can we feel happy. This is my logical definition of happiness.
Do you recognize the above statement? If you don't recognize it, you can disprove it, for example, people need food, sunshine, air, freedom, respect, health, happiness, money, emotion, friendship, praise, leisure, care, progress, etc. Which one of the above is missing, can you feel happy?
If recognized, move on to the next discussion.
We may observe, under what circumstances are people happy?
Is the smile hidden on a farmer's face as he harvests a bumper crop of food considered happiness?
Is it happiness for a student to listen to a teacher and smile happily after acquiring knowledge?
When you have nothing to do on Saturday, is it a blessing to take a book and read it for intellectual nourishment?
Is the happy excitement of a student who has solved a difficult problem after a lot of thinking considered happiness?
After a semester of hard studying, is the leap of joy of getting a good grade on a test considered happiness?
Or is the excitement of getting into your dream college after years of hard work considered happiness?
Is a worker's smile of satisfaction after getting the desired pay for his hard labor considered happiness?
Humans can't help but be happy and pleasant when these activities happen, so it must be happiness.
Explore further, what is labor and work?
Does getting up early in the morning for physical exercise count as labor? Maybe you say it doesn't count, but for athletes, a daily physical workout is what they do.
Is keeping flowers and watering grass at home considered labor? You might say no, but for the flower and tree care workers in the park, it is work.
What about singing and dancing? Again, for singers and dancers, this is work.
What about traveling by car? For business travelers who are traveling to a foreign land, riding in a car is an ordeal.
So in fact, there is no essential difference at all between human labor work and leisure activities.
So, I say, if someone is able to create joy and happiness every day of their life by living their favorite activities. Then that person is happy. That is to say, to receive the desired reward through one's labor (activity) every day is happiness.
Therefore, Marx said that working people are the happiest, and although Marx's ideas have brought great disasters to mankind, Marx, as a world-recognized philosopher, is absolutely classically correct in this statement.
If you don't agree with Marx's statement, you can think about it the other way around: if you were not allowed to have the so-called labor of walking, reading, exercising, singing, dancing, etc., would you be happy?
So, my idea of happiness is that as a human being, I am able to obtain the various needs that human beings need every day, such as money, respect, health, happiness, emotions, friendship, praise, etc., through my non-tiring activity, which is labor.
A life of muddling through is never a blessing, it is simply an unbearable torment in life.
So, no matter what you do now, what you do in the future, if you think that mixing is a kind of happiness, then you are absolutely wrong. We not only can not mix now, that is, in the future and then rich, and then successful, but also can not live that kind of mixed work, you can see Ma Yun Ma Huateng Li Jiacheng, Musk, Trump, Biden, even if the value of hundreds of millions of dollars, late to the twilight of the year, but still full of enthusiasm into the work. Do they not know enjoyment? Are they just natural workaholics? On the contrary, they are the most know how to enjoy life, the reason why they work like this, because they know that only successful work can bring them the greatest happiness.
For one's own happiness, one should find out what true happiness is. One should establish for oneself the philosophy of life that every day we have to make ourselves enjoyable and successful through our own labor until we die, and that such a life is the greatest life of happiness for the individual.
Back to reality, the examination this kind of acquisition through learning may not be not a kind of enjoyment and happiness. Even if the success of the examination, immediately have to set themselves the next goal, only constant challenge, constantly enterprising, constantly successful, and enjoy the process of such enterprising, in order to cast their happy life.