What is happiness? According to Wikipedia - is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy but how do you get it that state?
A question everybody asks at least once in life. Mass media loves to show “American dream” life of celebrities and luxury life of newly baked milliners trying to persuade us that is how you can reach happiness. American dream means different things for different people but it is always means “being wealthy” and work hard towards your dream.
Here is a small info picture of how the American dream has changed throughout generations:
Well, all of them might be happy disregard of what they do in life. Happiness is not the final destination like 1mil/year income or a huge house. The first step towards being happy is to see your life as a journey and happiness as a part of it rather than some mark on income or career you have to reach in order to be happy.
You can be happy by doing anything in life starting from building a career you dreamed of or leaving abandoning civilization in the middle of nowhere. ?? Everybody is different and humans during all the history of humankind have not had more choice and opportunities to do what you want.
The point is find activity in life that would make your Monday morning filled with joy of a new day and not cursing your life choice of work and pray for coffee to make your day a little bit less miserable. Advice is to try as many activities as you possibly can while you are young to find you what you are passion about. It might be some small hobby as gluing together match houses or playing some board game like “dungeons and dragons” in the evening with you friends or on the contrary during some voluntary work you realize that work in an office is not for you and joining an African aid mission is much more fulfilling for you than an air-conditioned office.
Questions:
A question everybody asks at least once in life. Mass media loves to show “American dream” life of celebrities and luxury life of newly baked milliners trying to persuade us that is how you can reach happiness. American dream means different things for different people but it is always means “being wealthy” and work hard towards your dream.
Here is a small info picture of how the American dream has changed throughout generations:
http://www.generations.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/american-dream-infographic.jpg
On the other hand there is a lot of reach people telling that you can’t buy happiness with money. In addition, what about those who don’t recognize tangible goods due to different reasons like monks in monastery, altruists or just people who don’t need any more unnecessary, as they call it “junk” like a bigger TV-set or a faster car.Well, all of them might be happy disregard of what they do in life. Happiness is not the final destination like 1mil/year income or a huge house. The first step towards being happy is to see your life as a journey and happiness as a part of it rather than some mark on income or career you have to reach in order to be happy.
You can be happy by doing anything in life starting from building a career you dreamed of or leaving abandoning civilization in the middle of nowhere. ?? Everybody is different and humans during all the history of humankind have not had more choice and opportunities to do what you want.
The point is find activity in life that would make your Monday morning filled with joy of a new day and not cursing your life choice of work and pray for coffee to make your day a little bit less miserable. Advice is to try as many activities as you possibly can while you are young to find you what you are passion about. It might be some small hobby as gluing together match houses or playing some board game like “dungeons and dragons” in the evening with you friends or on the contrary during some voluntary work you realize that work in an office is not for you and joining an African aid mission is much more fulfilling for you than an air-conditioned office.
Questions:
- Do you believe in the American dream?
- How often do you try new activities and what was the last one you tried?
- What makes your life satisfying?
Sources:
- http://www.generations.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/american-dream-infographic.jpg
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness
Comments
I don't know because I don't keep track of what activities I do, but one I can say for sure that sometimes it's better to stick only with an activity that you are really good at.
I guess positive results of my actions.
2. The last thing I did was ignore my fear of speaking to the public. Getting rid of fear gives freedom, I will feel freer if I stop being afraid that I will say something that is incomprehensible or wrong, and if I gain freedom I will be happy.
3. Inner harmony. I already experienced that age when I thought that a cool car is the limit of dreams, of course, I still want a Ferrari, but this is not the limit of dreams, it's a beautiful car, which if I do not have I will not be upset. I'm more interested in harmony in action, for this I want work for pleasure and knowledge as a tool to work.
Rather no, then yes.
How often do you try new activities and what was the last one you tried?
The last time I tried something new was trampolines hangar, and liked it.
What makes your life satisfying?
For me it's traveling and communion, because the purpose of life for me not 'to change the world', but make someones life better, even just you saying 'have a nice day!'.
I often try new activities. The biggest pleasure is learning new languages, and I always think which language I will learn next. The last new activities I tried was doing some paintings and drawing. Also I started doing photos with an analog camera.
I must admit that life itself is satisfying for me. Looking at nature, experiencing it, feeling like being a free man, loving my homeland and all whole world. Just observing the world and feeling it makes my life satisfying.
So I've tried to draw again and it was amazing.
Yes, absolutely but in almost every case of success or big fortune there is always a second bottom and sometimes it's really bad.
How often do you try new activities and what was the last one you tried?
As often as I can, last new think was wakeboard and I love it!
What makes your life satisfying?
I feel satisfied when people are able to rely on me and when I know that my opinion mean something to them.
Not so often but now I mostly try to renew the ones that I loved some time ago. I am going to start playing basketball that I had been playing by the age of 15.
That's really hard question. I think that getting to know something new or some extreme makes my life full of emotions and satisfying as well.
2)Well, I like to try new activities and I really try to try more, but usually I have either no time ormoney
1)Well, I think there is something good in american dream. Like i would like to have good house and a good flat, good family and job that can satisfy me)
Well, it's hard to listen to someone, who achieved a lot and tells you "come on, it's easy". It may not be easy for you, so you have to think about their approach, is it worth it.
How often do you try new activities and what was the last one you tried?
I've started to learning new programming language almost one year ago, and now I have job in it - it's a great feeling.
What makes your life satisfying?
Achieving my goals
for most people. People want more and more and more. The problem is that we just have to be happy with things we have. For example what is better, thought „I bought new TV oh my god I am so happy” or “I bought new tv but I am unhappy because if I earned more, I could buy much better TV”. By thinking this way we just going further away from happiness. Why would we do like that? I does not make any sense. Trying new activities is also very good idea. Recently I’ve started jogging. Very simple activity but it can make really good things in your brain. It causes throwing hormones such as dopamine which chemically makes you feel better. You can even get addicted to jogging because of that, which mean that you get happiness from doing something, what is good for your body. Doesn’t it sound awesome? It does not have to be jogging but I can be any form of physical activities. I started to be happy when I realised that I have to be satisfied from every single thing and look for every single good thing in a bad things. That makes my life satisfying.