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Philosophy: Will having fun make you happier than studying? - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:02 PM Will having fun make you happier than studying? Having fun means I will be happy, and I won’t be very happy studying, so the answer is obviously yes. I don’t think anyone in the world likes studying or finds it fun, but sometimes having too much fun will bring about the guilt of not studying for so long. In this situation, I would be happier studying than having fun because having ‘fun’ will not be fun anymore. For example, when you are out playing at the arcade and having fun, you will be happy until you realise that unless you study, your mother would most likely not buy you an Ipod Touch that you wanted so badly. Thus you have no choice but to study, or you will not be happy in the future. Now I realise that there are two ways of looking at the question. If you compare the two at this point of time, having fun would obviously win over more ‘yes’es than studying. But if one is look at this question from the future and compare these two things, he will find that studying truly gives the most happiness. If you compare someone who has studied all his childhood away and only stops studying at 21 years of age, and compare it to someone who has been having fun up to 21 years of age, you will most likely find that the person who studied will have a better life the rest of his life, with all the degrees and scholarships that he earned from his time sent on studying and improving himself. The 21 year-old who spent his life having fun and going out for parties will find that he cannot have fun anymore as he is out of money to spend on his expensive parties. He will most likely turn to gambling away whatever earnings he has left and end up dying at an early age of an illness he has no money to cure. Since the average life-span of a human being is about 70 years or more, the person who spent the 21 years studying will find more happiness for the rest of his life than the person who spent his life having fun. However, of the circumstance is that the person who studies dies at twenty one years of age, or that he chooses to spend his whole life studying for some strange reason, or that the person who spends his life having fun has inherited all the money in the world, he would obviously have more happiness than the person who wasted his life studying to his own grave. Therefore, the lesson to be learnt from trying to answer this question is that we must all learn when to stop; doing something to excess or doing it too little is also bad, therefore we must do our best at trying to keep it balanced. |