Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Why do people have different "happiness"?
If happiness is something internally normal (typical) for humans, why is it filled with different meaning for and achieved differently by different people? Why are some people happy because they are in strong health, others because they have a beloved one beside them, for still others because they love how they are spending their life in general? Is happiness something that is related only to our inner world ("be happy with oneself") or is something in the outside circumstances (money, love, sense of belonging, etc)? When people say they are happy, are they happy with what they have or with what they are? Does the feeling of happiness depend anyhow on the people's upbrining, education, world outlook, status in the society? ("the less you know, the better you sleep",i.e.happier?)
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Tolstoy was of a different opinion. He said that all happy families are happy in the same way, whereas each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. As for me, I think people are happy when they aspire for something, not already have it, or maybe at the very moment of achieving something, be it health, love or a car...
ReplyDeleteThis is a good one! I think that might have a deep connection to our background, values and culture, which determine how we perceive the rest.
ReplyDeleteI've been recently debating with my colleague whether people say in India really need to know well the geography of Europe and country capitals... And you know he almost managed to convince me there is little point for them in this...