While many people like to complain about Facebook or people's Facebook-related activities (this blog especially), I think one of the great things about it is the ability to catch some unfiltered glimpses of your friends grappling with the less pleasant aspects of life and realizing that we all are suffering in our own way.
The more I think about it, and
the more I hear from friends and others who are suffering, I think sadness and
discontent is less an acute affliction and more a permanent feature of the human
existence. Pyramids, cities, machines, and computers, for example, were not
built because man was satisfied with the status quo, rather it is man’s
intellect and unfailing capacity to grow dissatisfied with his current
condition regardless of past success that fuels his continual yearning for progress
and discovery.
On a Darwinian level, it has proven to be a tremendously
powerful strategy for the prosperity of the species. On a personal level,
however, you can’t help but wonder if our ancestors had just decided that a
simple life of nomadic hunting and gathering was good enough, maybe our lives
would be, if more brutal and brief, happier.
