Thursday, October 21, 2010
Happiness Revised
After reading McKibbens book, and participating in class discussions, i now realize that true happiness comes from spending time with your family and friends and people you love. I used to think that money could make me happy, but i now realize that it only gives me short term happines, and my long term happiness comes from surrounding myself with people i love to be around.
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If you were to remove all the things that give you short term happiness, such as money, could you still be happy with only the things which provide you long term happiness? Does being around your family and friends also give you short term happiness? How about the times when you don't want to be around family or friends at all?
ReplyDeleteI think your right because our friends and family are always going to be there for us. Our friends and family don't care about the money, but for our overall well-being. But we still somewhat need money to be happy because without it we wouldn't have live the life styles that we do now. the small things like the house we live in, the foods we eat, or driving home when we get a break from shool.
ReplyDeleteI agree that spending time with your family is important. Money can not buy that time that you lose out on your family.
ReplyDeletei agree that family and friends can bring happiness, but what about those who don't have a lot of family and friends, and dont like to be social? what would be a good motive for them to achieve happiness.
ReplyDeletei agree that our family and friends do make us happy. and that is very important to life today. money cant buy happiness so you will never get it
ReplyDeleteGreat questions for this post--I think the relationship between "short term happiness" and "long term happiness" pointed to by Dblice is a great way to start thinking about what happiness means.
ReplyDeleteHollrich mentions a "motive" for happiness. I've always thought of happiness as a motive--as an end to itself; but what is our motivation to be happy? What motive do we have to pursue it?
Also, can a solitary person can be happy at all? When I think of purposeful isolation I think of misanthropes or monks. I doubt misanthropy would lead to happiness, but meditation might--is this the same type of happiness that comes from a sense of community?