What you want, and what you like about this place, is a lack of suffering. It's a very basic desire, and it's actually the core of epicureanism - the path to happiness can be found in a lack of suffering, and the ability to seek pleasure in fleeting things simply because they're fleeting to begin with.
All things in life are temporary, Kaneki-kun, including and especially life itself. Why should anything we seek be permanent? Even if you're sent home sooner than you would like, that doesn't devalue the experience that you had here; if anything, it brings this one experience to a close, a natural conclusion to this particular chapter in your life, and while the experience is as beautiful as you make it, there's something about completing it that's beautiful, too.
Happiness isn't something we're supposed to have on a permanent basis; it's something we have for a while, and then whatever brings it to us ends. Either we can embrace that fact and enjoy the knowledge that we had that happiness and seek out more of that feeling for ourselves, or we can decide that it's not worth it in the end if we can't have it forever. The latter is a valid way to feel, I suppose, but it isn't any way to live.
So we keep seeking happiness where we can, and when we can't, the most we can ask is to not suffer. This place may be temporary, and there's uncertainty in it, but why shouldn't you seek out whatever happiness you can from it? And if you can't, you should find a way to take pleasure in the knowledge that you're no longer suffering - that things are right for you in a way that they haven't been for a long time.
Thinking that you're selfish for not wanting to suffer anymore...does anyone really have the right to decide that?
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What you want, and what you like about this place, is a lack of suffering. It's a very basic desire, and it's actually the core of epicureanism - the path to happiness can be found in a lack of suffering, and the ability to seek pleasure in fleeting things simply because they're fleeting to begin with.
All things in life are temporary, Kaneki-kun, including and especially life itself. Why should anything we seek be permanent? Even if you're sent home sooner than you would like, that doesn't devalue the experience that you had here; if anything, it brings this one experience to a close, a natural conclusion to this particular chapter in your life, and while the experience is as beautiful as you make it, there's something about completing it that's beautiful, too.
Happiness isn't something we're supposed to have on a permanent basis; it's something we have for a while, and then whatever brings it to us ends. Either we can embrace that fact and enjoy the knowledge that we had that happiness and seek out more of that feeling for ourselves, or we can decide that it's not worth it in the end if we can't have it forever. The latter is a valid way to feel, I suppose, but it isn't any way to live.
So we keep seeking happiness where we can, and when we can't, the most we can ask is to not suffer. This place may be temporary, and there's uncertainty in it, but why shouldn't you seek out whatever happiness you can from it? And if you can't, you should find a way to take pleasure in the knowledge that you're no longer suffering - that things are right for you in a way that they haven't been for a long time.
Thinking that you're selfish for not wanting to suffer anymore...does anyone really have the right to decide that?