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The nature of happiness

Hot 2615 views. 2021-8-26 15:41

I live in Beijing, You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television or surfing Tik Tok, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if one star has a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, and expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, and profound loneliness.

The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equate with unhappiness, But in fact, the opposite is true: More time than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

Many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.

As a result, I think the happiness is quite and freedom, give me more quite place and quite life, let me lying on the green grass and close my eyes , nobody disturbing me, that is the happiness.


Post comment Comment (4 replies)

Reply davidjuyong 2021-8-26 17:04
That is great point.
Reply teadrinking 2021-8-26 21:28
My fun is something involved in what I like, my happiness is something that comes out of my hard work. I'd like doing for what I want. In the process of being individual, I learn to be reasonable and realistic. I have the courage to face troubles and have the desire to conquer them. What is more, I have dreams to have what I want to realize. Maybe, currently, I cannot fully have all of what I want to come true. While I am in happiness to struggle for them. The sense of achievement is great as the triumph to stuff in my happiness. Whenever I finished something, I relieve to be free and talk a walk around. If I am still available, I just go somewhere around. Finally, I am walking among trees and alongside waters, I definitely feel that of happiness deeply arouses me to relax and release.
Reply Rosanna 2021-8-30 08:57
teadrinking: My fun is something involved in what I like, my happiness is something that comes out of my hard work. I'd like doing for what I want. In the process  ...
without any regrets when we finish our life.
Reply Rosanna 2021-8-30 08:57
davidjuyong: That is great point.
thanks!

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