A Different Life And Different Outlook
Submitted by tocornot on April 29, 2008
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A Different Life and Different Outlook
“In Praise of Melancholy” by Eric G. Wilson discusses the psychological obsession of happiness in America. Happiness is seen as complacency and a lack of feeling or blandness in life. In this article melancholy is the desire for more in life searching for meaning through all the chaos and realizing that not everything is perfect. The first step to change is to realize that you are in the wrong or everything in your life isn’t right. So melancholy is positive in the sense that we are able to realize what is really going on in the world around us. We as people want to take the easy road out of life and stay in euphoria at all times so we drown our sorrows with pills and vapid superficial behavior. America tends to look at melancholy behavior in a negative sense, as a depression of sorts. Eric...