Happiness

Recently, I chatted with one of my friend. She was a good and kind girl, although she was kinda quiet. We talked about a lot of things. We really had a huge amount of topic because we haven't met for quite a long time. At one point she told me that she has went to a village and she felt pity to the village. I asked her back "Why?" Then, she explain it quite deep. 


She said that the village are very messy. The toilets are dirty and most of the rooms do not have any doors. They had trouble in finding water. The nearest school was 2 kilo meters away and they do not have any vehicle so that, they need to walk to get to school. Electricity is one of the rarest thing, she said. She explain it in a very detail way. Until I've realized that village was very bad.


After that we kept talking and talking and after we finished talking, I was thinking a little bit for the village. It is true that the village was very bad, but it does not mean that the villager is not happy. Einstein give me the theory that everything is relative. We cannot use the same measurement in a environment. What I want to say is that I don't think that we need to pity village just because the village has so many problems. Townie has also a lot of problems. The differences id just the type of problem. Humans, in their life, need to face problems. That's the point. Wherever you lived, you will face problem that you need to solve. People that live without electricity do not mean that they are less happy with people with electricity. If the villager problem are finding a good source of electricity, the townie problem can be like maintaining the electricity or finding an environment-friendly source of electricity. Humans have problems and it is a good thing.


Moreover, humans are habitual creature. If the villager are used to lived without electricity, they would find it nice to live without electricity. They will have another kind of activity than people that live with full electricity. The villager could be as happy as the townie.


I would say that there are possibilities that the villagers are generally happier that the townie because of technology. With technology, human life will become more complex as the time passes. People that lives without technology, in this case is the villagers, will get no more problems and they can focus on their social life more than the busy townie. So, I would choose not to pity the village. It is good to pity the living, but I prefer to pity the human that lives without love whoever they are, wherever they live as the wise Dumbledore said.