Is it worth the price??

At times, we would reflect back whether that something we have done is worthwhile. And, unfortunately, you would find that there are certain things and decisions that you made are indeed stupid and childish and not worthwhile at all. The thing is, how do we know that we have made a wrong move? We are able to do so because we have gone through certain things, and we are growing more mature.

Up to this stage, we might think that we are well-equipped with experience and knowledge to survive in this realistic world. However, there will be questions of whether we should grieve over the dark and sad experience that we have had before. If we deleted such experience, of course, we would feel much better and happier. But, deleting memory is not an easy task. There will be also people arguing over the importance of those experience as the foundation of who we are today. People might be caught in limbo at this stage. Certain things are just too difficult to be set. It is difficult to persuade oneself to stand still at one principle (which Morrie, a favorite lecturer of Mitch Albom in Tuesdays with Morrie, refers to as tension of the opposite.)

Therefore, the essence of a happy life should be the following:
- whatever the principle that one holds in his life, one should prioritize his happiness, as well as the well being of the others;
- grieving over one's past is useless (besides the lessons and experience given from the past events);
- there is no fixed way or theory to live happily. We must always be flexible and willing to change in order to suit our ever-changing life.