A Short Note about Happiness
July13
During the past few days, I have been pondering a lot about Happiness. A lot of questions came up which I really didn’t have answer for. They are as follows :
1) Is happiness something temporary or permanent ?
2) How do you know your happy ?
3) Is there a way you can measure happiness?
4) What makes one happy ?
5) Can you buy happiness ? If yes, for how much?
A lot of these questions are subjective and the answers may vary from person to person. Unfortunately, there might not be any concrete answers to these questions. But I’ll investigate and find out for sure.
1)happiness is an illusion, not meaning that it doesn’t exist, but the label of being “happy”, that’s the trick. If you think about it, maybe if you stop thinking whether you’re happy or not you’ll get to feel it. You wont start focusing on those little things that might upset you for a second and go on thinking “i’m miserable” for days later. It’s not worth it. It doesn’t make sense. Just for this moment, as you’re reading this, stop thinking about it. Think about these words and how they might make you feel. For now at least. See?
Now do the same everyday.
Cheers.
You should read The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman – will put an interesting spin on your investigation: suggests you should focus less on finding the answers and instead try to avoid thinking about those questions at all (although that summery doesn’t do it justice at all)