Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Happiness- Revised Definition
When I was first asked to describe what made me happy, I came up with tons of things. I had so many thoughts in my mind about what happiness was, yet after reading Deep economy, and having the class discussions that we did I realized, my perception of happiness was completely misguided. I said things like going shopping made me happy, or winning a soccer game, however all of those things are short term. Sure, you are happy at that moment in time, but a year later your level of happiness is either going to be non-existent or much lower than what it was when the event took place. I described in my paper, that I think the terms happiness and success are very closely related, they can both be short or long term and both are hard to define when it comes down to describing a concrete definition. But ultimately I said that I believed there was no possible way to achieve happiness universally.
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I agree with you. Winning sectionals in softball last year was a big deal and brought me a great deal of happniess. A year from now I will look back on that experience and remember how happy i was in the moment, but after a year has past I won't get the same feeling that i felt last year.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there is things that can make you happy for a moment in time and then things that can make you happy forever those are the happy memories that are cherished.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by "achieve happiness universally?" Are you saying we can't make everyone happy? Or that not everyone can be made happy in the same way?
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