Self-Deception Can be the Key to Human Happiness

“Many people may have thought once about whether self-delusion is good or bad. Although self-deception might be probably a wrong thing, a little self-deception might be just what people need to get through the day. Self-Deception can be the key to human happiness or will self-deception might lead people to ruin and misery, at least in the long run. I suspect that self-deception, like many facets of human life, has both a light side and a dark side. Perhaps the key to happiness is to stay on the bright side and avoid the dark side.

But doing that would be a not easy task. I doubt that there could be a formula or even a set of rough principles when it would be happy making to deceive oneself and when one needed to be relentlessly honest with oneself. One of the famous quotes by Plato is that “The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.” He thinks self-deception is a bad thing and I agree with it. I aim to explain through my experience why self-deception is a bad thing and show how my experience of self-deception can be more clearly through the concept of self-deception.

I deceived myself to avoid confronting difficult situations when I was young. Self-Deception became a habit, and It was so easy to live a life of self-deception. Self-Deception made me happy. I was what most of the world thinks is “”happy”” years ago. I was living the life people men dream of. One day I realized that I was lying to myself. I was not me. I didn’t like who I was, and I was only “”happy”” (because I see this form of happiness coming from how society sees happiness) because I was fulfilling other peoples expectations of who I was.

Self- deception refers to a way in which a person deceive him or herself in order to accept what is false and does not exist as real. It raises many interesting philosophical puzzles of there own. It is the process or fact of misleading ourselves to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. Sometimes we avoid reality; we deny the truth and fool ourselves. In some cases, we see the world the way we want to, not the way it is. The other face of self-deception is denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, importance of logical argument and evidence that is opposite to the preferred vision of the world and the people living in it. Self-deception is considered to be a barrier to lead to authenticity. The examples of self-deception can be found in Plato’s allegory of the cave. It is still relevant today. The people often are confused by real life because it is not how they think it is. In the allegory of the cave, the prisoners look at shadows and think they are real life; however, it’s only shadows. This stands true today; many of the people of the world are held captive by deception.

I’ve been thinking years towards actual happiness since then. To me, it is about ridding myself of self-deception. It is crucial to stop lying to make myself feel better and focus on what I can do to make me happy. For example, I’ve been trying to figure out later why I treat a woman the way I do- as objects. It’s self progression and change that brings me happiness. Knowing I have a situation to abuse a woman’s trust and not doing that makes me happy; I can see myself changing. I’m coming to realize that, as an individual, I can’t just fix the way I am, but I can progress towards being who I really am. I am living to my own standards and doing the things I want instead of relying on other people and society to pat me on the back and tell me I did a good job. When I stopped lying to myself about who I really was, that is when I began my journey. In my own opinion, happiness is when you can realize you lie to yourself. I work from there and enjoy that journey. That is at least what makes me happy. I think that Happiness is based on the individual seeking it.

In conclusion, Self-deception is a way we justify false beliefs to ourselves. There is no doubt that we are not real sometimes. Not all of our actions are intentional or rational. Sometimes we deny the truth, we avoid reality, and we fool ourselves. Self-Deception is the foundation of unhappiness and failure. I can say absolutely that self-delusion always leads to ruin. Although some of the people believe that self-deceived is a good thing and they continue to lying themselves or their friend and family, they might be ruined by themselves. I still have to think of identifying where and when I’ve been deceiving myself and try to figure out why I’ve been doing it are the key to improve the situation. It’s true in all face of life.”

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