Define Your Happiness

I were tagged by AngelBaby from Your Caring Angels. However, please forgive me for my different kind of tag. I cannot help but to write a little about happiness. By the way, I am glad to tag along my friend: Hye from Space of Reality. She has a lot of heavy stuffs (karma, describing red color to blind man (!), life, etc) going on in her blog, so I just want to know whether she is happy or not. haha..

You Are 88% Happy

It's unlikely that you know anyone happier than you. You know how to be happy, no matter what life throws at you.

How Happy Are You?

What is that will make you happy? A new husband or wife? A new house or car, more money or to be better looking? A praise from your special friend or supervisor, a raise in salary or just after bump into someone beautiful? Maybe you are a young person and your definition of happiness is to find a special someone and get married and have children. Maybe you are single and love being one. The question that interest me the most is, how do you define happiness?

I am sure that your definition is totally different from others with regard to the best ways of achieving happiness of yourself. However, there are several theories constituting to the main source of happiness. I extracted some of them from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethnics:

• Certain goods, such as life and health are necessary preconditions for happiness and
  
• Others (wealth, friends, fame, honor) are embellishments that promote or fill out a good life for a virtuous person, but that it is the possession and exercise of virtue which is the core constitutive element of happiness.

Anyone can argue that even without wealth you can also be happy. Ample materials are readily available from the lives of many people to prove that wealth is not equal to happiness. Level of happiness of individuals are different from others. Some only be content with the highest achievement in their career or study, some already satisfy with an average needs. In the persuasion of physical enjoyment we get direct feedback. With emotional enjoyment we often have a barrier of beliefs and assumptions filtering our efforts.

Is there a problem in seeking happiness according to assumptions and beliefs? Not really, unless you have followed the criteria in the mind and your pursuit led to unhappiness. Is it possible that we can cheat our mind to make us happy? I believe we could. After all, we are the one who chooses our own happiness. You are the one to decide who you want to be and what you want to do.

One of the things that make me happy is being appreciated. I would like to take a few lines of this post to express my gratitude for given two awards last week. Hye from Space of Reality and Angelbaby from Your Caring Angels were kind enough to give me a Certified Honest Blogger award and another Interesting Blog award. (The awards can be seen at the right side of this blog) Thank you so much for given me an opportunity to feel happy :D

How do you define your own happiness? It doesn't matter whether it is your long time goal or the simplest thing that will make you happy, just define it for me! My definition of happiness other than being appreciated is:

I define happiness when my mood is high and everything else seems beautiful. Funny isn't it? hehe

How about you? Let us know!

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