About
+Breki Tomasson is a person.
It’s taken me half an hour of staring at this screen before being able to type out that sentence. I’ve been trying to find a good way of introducing myself in the third person, and I just can’t seem do it any more. I used to be able to throw out these beautiful – or so I thought – paragraphs about who I was, but all that seems to have changed. All I really know right now is that I’m a person. Instead of describing me as an individual, let me describe why I created this website.
The domain name itself – Lonely Savage – refers back to a quote from David Hume‘s essay XVI, entitled The Stoic, where he says:
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
Ever since the first time I read it; this quote has resonated with me in many ways. The attainment of happiness remains the single biggest reason for anybody to do anything and should be our highest goal at all times. Too often, we forget it and simply plow through week after week of unhappiness, routine and misery simply because it’s what we “must” do to put food on the table and retain our status as responsible adults. I chose to believe that we don’t have to live that sort of life and that if we were to live a life focused on the attainment of long-term happiness, we will ultimately be more pleased.
That core philosophical concept, my friends, is what I believe this site to be all about. It’s about my journey towards the attainment of happiness. As such, it will include all the major steps and all the interesting thoughts I have regarding the subject as I work my way towards pure, unadulterated, happiness.
Enjoy! I know I will.
