In order to answer this question, the concept of happiness should first be precisely defined, because in different cultures, in different communities of individual regions of the world, in situations of different mentality and general social awareness, the concept of happiness does not always mean the same.
For example, happiness can be interpreted with living conditions. On the other hand, happy living conditions are, for example, living in a beautiful, natural environment with the closest people who would also feel happy in such a setting.
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When you leave your scientific and research interests and ask questions for questions here, consider yourself happy !!!
When you go to bed sad because the day is over and you wake up in the morning glad to start a new day, I think.
Happiness is overrated. Ignorance and stupidity are compatible with bliss.
- "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question." -- John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1863)
"Regrets I had a few; too few to mention" by Franck Sinatra in
" My Way"
When you develop your personality, and transcend as a free human being of any social chain, you can consider yourself happy
When you have a balanced life, when you are not obligated to do things you don't want to do, when you are surrounded by real freinds, and last but most important, when the body is healthy, and the soul content. Or as Gandhi said: when there is harmony between what you say, what you think and what you do.
I prefer not to use the word happy. Happiness is an emotion that is fluid just like sadness, anger, irritability, etc. I prefers to use the word "meaningful" or "satisfying." Using either of these words can accurately capture the person's perspective of their life. For example, I can be sad today because a relative died but still have a meaningful or satisfying life because I am healthy, have a good create, and loving relationships.
Happiness is overrated v. 2.0
https://me.me/i/everybody-seeks-happiness-not-me-though-thats-t-happiness-isnt-19694199
Happiness for me is satisfaction. When satisfaction based on a chosen social and private life by our own. I want to emphasise on the important element for happiness : Freedom of choice!
It is interesting to note that there are people who might pursue the conditions which Katerina Stafilidou has outlined above. When anyone gets someone who has attained them I will be grateful to know their name, just for curiosity's sake. Not that I need to join their ranks. I am too human to.
The happiest moment of life depends on the person considering the economic standard, family atmosphere, social situations .
Let life = L, happiness = H and sadness = S.
H = L - S.....(1)
S = L - H.....(2)
Adding (1) and (2) gives L = 1/2H + 1/2S
I’m yet to ascertain the probability of a universal measure of happiness given the diversity of covert signs relied upon (indicators) across contexts to imply a happy state; the dynamic of these signs overtime and their associated duality. Thus happiness for me is momentary feeling of pleasure or containment that cannot be ascertained via covert behaviours like smiles, laughter or cheerfulness alone but chiefly via individual confirmation.
Happiness = t (time) ± the above signs (smiles, laughter, cheerfulness, etc) + individual confirmation of inner felling of pleasure or containment or both.
Note: t is constant considering the question “when”.
Pheiroijam's are very remarkable efforts saving that my reading of the equation is that sustained, unbroken happiness is impossible; a position that I have always feared is the case in the human existence as we know it. And that brings in the questions of subjectivity, ephemerality, and relativity of this state, i.e. happiness, that Kelechi suggests, and which I am inclined to support; but would have stopped at that point. When he goes on to essentialize it, it seems to me that we run into a new challenge. Nor are Kelechi's efforts helped any further by the fact that I am not sure that such terms as "containment" and "covert" are not catachrestic in the context of his argument.
An individual's happiness can only be truly defined and assessed by that individual.
RE: An individual's happiness can only be truly defined and assessed by that individual.
I'm not so sure about that, Dennis Mazur . A lot of people are too mentally and verbally challenged to define much of anything and also don't have much self-understanding.
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Very!
Overt and contentment were intended, I tried editing the response after I added it without success.
Been contemplating deleting.
Should the quality of an individual's life, however it is to be defined, be self-defined or other-defined?
People feel happy when they perceived their growth. Here, growth can be defined differently according to each person's situation. That is, better myself makes us feel happy.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/70762-what-really-makes-a-person-happy-9-things-science-knows-about-what-really-keeps-us-content
Hello, skeptics have often asked whether a person who uses cocaine every day is “happy.” If feeling good all the time were our only requirement, then the answer would be “yes.” However, recent research suggests that an even-keeled mood is more psychologically healthy than a mood in which you achieve great heights of happiness regularly—after all, what goes up must come down.
By celebrating your wins at the end of each day, you'll feel better about your work and personal life.
Research shows that just 10% of happiness depends on a person's situation. ... That's called flow. ... Live life based on the values that are important to you.
When you have satisfaction, contentment and peace of mind
Especially the love of ALLAH, our Messenger and our parents.
Be good and competent in our work, and seek to help and delight others.
Furthermore, as you say , the concept of happiness does not always mean the same.In our religion , just reading Coran you feel very happy.
dear Darius thank you for this discussion because every person is looking for happiness
Even though it's close
The defination of Happiness is subjective but from the theoretical perspective it is the state of being happy.
Happiness is a psychological condition. The concept of happiness is roughly a concept involving the concepts of pleasure and contentment. The question confuses both the causes of the condition, and the concept of the condition, with the condition itself.
If different things make us happy it doesn't follow that we have a different concept of happiness. Cf. if you like apples and I like oranges it doesn't follow that we mean something different by the term "like" which has to first be defined. If I offer you dessert by presenting you with a bowl of apples and oranges and ask, which one would you like? there is no conceptual issue about what it is to like something. I am not asking, what do you mean by "like"; the question already presupposes a shared meaning for the word.
Programing one's self to be satisfied with what you have done would lead to more content and overall happiness!
I think that happiness apart from being subjective is also a relative term in the sense that , what goes for one, does not necessarily go for the other. Therefore, happiness is a function of the perception of the person or individual being evaluated or that is evaluating him/herself. Again, the issue of happiness is also related to the social, economic and environmental circumstances of the person in question.
1. Do things for others
2. Connect with people
3. Notice the world around you
4. Keep learning
5. Have goals to look forward to
According to the Theory of Dual Morality, just as the senses of sight, smell, taste and touch evolved to help us navigate our physical environment, two distinct social senses evolved to guide us to success in our social environment of people and groups. These manifest themselves politically as our "liberal" or "conservative" tendencies, in economics they are expressed as our "socialistic" or "capitalistic" outlooks, and when dealing with our own psychology we refer to these patterns as our "personality" vs. "character." Each outlook has its own ultimate end or aim and as we believe we are achieving it we consider ourselves as "happy." In one moral outlook we seek equality and in the other we seek to be recognized as unequal, as better-than or more deserting or meritorious.
Many people in different words but basically say the same that the key to happiness, to a happy life is a reasonable, healthy lifestyle with balance in various areas of activity, including family life, work, etc. The key to a happy life is a sustainable pro-ecological mode with regard to the balance between tradition and modernity, etc.
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Fulfilling of joy with
Understandable wife
Satisfying salary
Good children
Best friend
Can a person be unhappy and not know it?
Or happy but think he is not?
If we reduce happiness to a subjective feeling than the happiness felt by a deranged person who gets joy when he kills children is the same as the happiness felt by the saint when he saves lives.
Should we be taught how and when to feel happy or is it up only to ourselves to decide?
When person feels many positive emotions.
And when person spends time with the ones he/she loves and they love him/her.
Backed by research. No magic there :)
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