Happiness is very different for everyone.
My idea of happiness can potentially devastate to someone else’s life. Why It’s So Hard To Be Happy, by Michael Wiederman tried to explain the reasons why such a simple feeling of happiness is so difficult to attain. Are we just never satisfied? According to Wiederman we are creatures of habit and adaptation. We adapt to the good as well as the bad.
We seek happiness in objects and goals but don’t look for it in front of us.Happiness is always ahead of us. The author looks into various explanations as to why we struggle to reach happiness. He explores the idea of economical burdens, genetic predisposition and goal setting.
?The idea that most people have in their heads of what being happy would be like usually involves money, lots of it too. As far statistics show we have tripled our buying power from 1050 to 2000 but our happiness has stayed the same. On the contrary, anxiety levels in children have gone up since 1950.So we can conclude that money does not buy happiness. ?Natural selection and adaptation is partly to blame for our lack of conformity. We seek happiness but once we achieve it we become inured to it.
It also happens that we tend to notice what is wrong with our lives more than what is right. We are inheritably prone to notice the harm or threat to ourselves before we notice the good. We are basically never satisfied; we are always going to want that more, little by little.More money, more cars, more clothes, more space, you name it we always want more. Essentially we are insatiable. ?The ability to be happy can also derive from each person’s personality.
Some may just never be capable of the feeling; others are easily stimulated and satisfied. These who desire less and appreciate more are usually the ones who experience happiness in life. It’s in their personality. That’s not saying that others are incapable of it but it takes them longer or exaggerated amounts of euphoric moments to get stimulation equal to happiness.
Others set goals for themselves in order to be happy. These people place happiness as their goal and their means are their goals and achievements.They have the belief that in order to be happy they must reach miles stones or dates or events or deadlines. Success does bring happiness. Happiness can be achieved by the completion of goals and recognitions and other such sets of ambitions. But the correlation is not as simple as success and happiness together.
Being happy usually helps people o become successful, the have greater confidence in themselves and therefore they have a higher chance at success. Happiness does not just come from success but is help with your happiness. ?? Happiness to be has always been the goal. In the end all I want is to be happy. What interest me changes constantly, my ideas change constantly and what could have made me happy two years ago today might not.
What I dreaded in the past can actually be what makes me happy today. Family and health are essential and never changing in the recipe of happiness.Very few things in life are never ending or continuously desired but for me family is one of those rare things, I might hate them from time to time or just not understand how we are related but in the end they are the one constant in my life. Good or bad they are what must remain. Other desires or wants are all variables in life. What makes me happy right now has to be the fact that I am in school and despite many obstacles I have managed to stay.
My strive to become a healthier person, and the acquisition of a vehicle that I had been long awaiting are what makes me happy.
