What's the really happiness?
By quentina
@quentina (109)
China
December 4, 2007 2:50am CST
the way people hold to the brief that a fun-filled,pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness.If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness.But in fact,the opposite is true:more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result,many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness.They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage,raising children,professional achievenment,religious commitment,self-improvment.
How's your opinion?
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4 responses
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
4 Dec 07
Hi quentina, Thank you for this post, I think that it's an excellent one. Happiness comes from within, and has nothing to do with what happens to us. Some people say, " I'll be happy when I get a promotion" or " I'll be happy when the kids are grown", " I'll be happy when I can retire", etc. The fact is none of these things have anything to do with real happiness. If you let what happens to you decide, then you will never be happy. Some of the happiest people I've known had very little when it came to material things. Some of them are in poor health, or even disabled. Blessings.
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
4 Dec 07
Happiness is a state mind and differs from person to person and it is not uniform. A man who never had a two square meals, if he gets one, is the happiest man. A man who is making a million per year, if he makes 2 million in a particular year, is the happiest man. A child which gets a bundle of chocolates instead of one is the happiest. An unemployed who is not having any job gets a job is happy. Parents will be happy if their children study well and get a job so that their life is settled.
There are so many such small things in life and if it happens brings happiness. But the everlasting happiness comes only when a man works hard with sincerity of purpose and with a aim, achieves it.
@mary855230 (121)
• China
6 Dec 07
yeah , happiness is simple , we need to find that , in fact , we live with happiness . good luck to u . my dear friend .
@mary855230 (121)
• China
6 Dec 07
life isnt always happy , life also isnt always smooth , i think . happiness also involve sadness , abstacles . but if we can live with my dear ,it is happy .
