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Inadvertently Complicated

God created a simple world. All physicists seek simplicity in their theories. All mathematicians vie for it in their expressions. As Einstein put it, "I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple". Even us, the not so gifted members of the race, somehow intuitively like the the simpler hypothesis better than the more complicated ones. And yet we are unable to understand that happiness in life could be so simple!

When it comes to happiness somehow the most convoluted path appears to the best one. Happiness is always a thing belonging to distant future and the journey to it is shrouded with various conditions becoming true. We make a simple thing more complicated than it deserved to be, and here is where we miss the point. Happiness is a state function, and like all state functions (think internal energy U) its value depends only on the initial and final state of the mind. There is not a certain path to happiness and even if there was it would be as good or bad as any other. 

How digital cameras help you forget the moment for the rest of your life.

I like the concept of pensieve, the way Rowling describes in her books. The idea that the memories of a person can be poured into a pot to be experienced by someone else is probably the closest one can get to preserving a moment. But no digital camera in the market, regardless of its mega pixel count, comes even remotely close to doing that. A moment is so much more than a still 2 D image. A moment is what you live. But the basic human instinct to make everything pretty his own, gets in the way. It is saddening to see that people go to hill stations, and cities and beaches with people they love, and see the world not thought their eyes but a 2.2 inches LCD screen. And pretty sunsets are stored not in our minds but our transflash memory sticks. 

I wish we could let go of the fear of losing the moment forever. I wish we live the moment and not stack away memories to relive some other day. I wish we would stop planning to live and start living.