Happiness means FREEDOM from PAIN !.

Some people’s ideas are not understood. It is not because the idea is difficult, but because the way they explain their ideas is wrong. They complicate the simplest idea.

Understanding an idea depends on the situation of the thinker and the listener. If the thinker does not explain his idea in a simple way, the listener will have difficulty understanding it; if the listener does not have good listening skills and ability to understand things, he may not understand the essence of the thinker.

If the speaker and the listener do not meet on the middle path, they will not be able to understand. On the other hand, there are not many who will listen to your idea from A to Z and understand it. Without getting the whole idea, they will conclude from brief information and fragmentary ideas that this is what you wanted to say.

People who do not understand your idea by twisting your idea will never be counted. Those who make discussion, debate, and argument are those who do not allow listening.

Instead of directly understanding what you said, they interpret it in a negative way, creating meaning. Some people also misinterpret your ideas in a way that they don’t think is right; when they don’t understand your ideas, they change them to what they know instead of asking you to understand them.

Again, instead of understanding the content of your ideas, they criticize you without even listening to what you said. They give political interpretations to your ideas without understanding them, and make you the target of their hatred.

There is a disagreement; but it can be resolved by talking and listening. It is your right to disagree with your ideas; but it will happen after you understand the idea.

We must understand the idea to agree or disagree. For one reason or another, one may not understand the other’s ideas; but it is a shame to interpret the idea that you don’t understand and say something that the person didn’t mean.

There are many philosophers whose ideas the world has misunderstood and misinterpreted. Among them, we present a good example for today is the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. The ancient philosopher Epicurus is one of the philosophers that the world has not understood. Epicurus was born in 341 BC, seven years after Plato died, and grew up in the Mediterranean port of Samos, which was then a colony of Athens.

Epicurus was a teenager of 19 years when Aristotle died. This philosopher was an Athenian citizen at the time, but not a true Athenian; he was a “foreigner” in this era. Like Aristotle, he was an immigrant who was attracted by Athens’ art, philosophy, architecture, democracy, and free markets.

Many have accused Epicurus of being a lover of luxury. He has been accused of saying that a person can be happy if he eats and drinks well and lives a luxurious life. What Epicurus was trying to say, however, is that a person can be happy simply by reducing his wants.

He was saying that someone who has little but needs little can be happier than someone who has much but constantly wants more. Others have accused Epicurus of encouraging poverty rather than wealth.

Indeed, Epicurus wrote in his letter to a friend, “The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool,” Epicurus writes in his letter to Menoeceus.