What is the definition of happiness?
Can happiness be defined?
What does it mean, how do I achieve it and why is it important?
The above are all very good questions, questions I plan to address in the best way I know how. Happiness is an emotion, an emotion that is as unique to each one of us as a snow flake is to a snow storm. We all know that there are no snow flakes identical to another. Happiness is your snow flake. No one else will ever be able to duplicate it for themselves nor can you duplicate the happiness of another for yourself.
The dictionary’s definition of happiness is this:
The encyclopedia says that happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, pleasure, joy or satisfaction.
You can see now why it is hard to define happiness. The places we rely on the most to give us specifics are vague themselves on what exactly happiness is. Even researchers and scientists have struggled with the meaning of happiness for thousands of years now.
I’m sorry to say that only you can define the meaning of happiness for yourself. Now, don’t get to upset just yet. There are things you can do to discover what it means to be happy and to improve just how happy you are. The first thing you need to do is just ask yourself a few basic questions like…
Being happy just plain feels good, but outside of that why does it matter whether I’m happy or not? What difference does it make whether or not I have happiness in my life?
Yes, being happy does feel good and if you ask me, that is reason enough, but if you need more convincing that it is important that you incorporate as much happiness into your life as possible maybe these facts will help.
So, I have given you the how and why, but in the end you are the only one who can answer the question “What is the definition of happiness to me?” Only you know what makes you happy, only you have control over just how happy you will be.
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