Happiness

Happiness is the emotion that I associate with the four important things in my life: music, my friends, books and writing. When one of the things is missing it’s very hard for me to be happy. I can’t write without music and if I don’t meet my friends constantly the greatest book seems boring and meaningless.

But is it possible to define happiness in a gerneral way?

Happiness is a very diferent feeling and sometimes I think it’s one of the basic needs of (us) humans. Everybody wants to be happy in his/her way. We need approval and success to be happy and the feeling that someone understands us. When something is missing it’s hard to be really happy.

I think that the only lasting way fpr happiness is love or having a crush on someone. Few things make us happier than kissing the person we really love (and nothing is more awful than losing this person).

Persons who act like they are always happy are normally not very happy and only want to show that everything’s right. Not to be hapy in today’s soceity isn’t „normal“.

No one wants to talk to depressive or sad people or wants to show his/her own pure feelings. It’s better to show a untrue way of happiness.

Most types of Happiness are very flighty. When you push your body you are happy afterwards but hours later the great feeling is gone and you have to push yourself again.
Sometimes happiness is dangerous. For example when you take drugs. The moment of the intense joy is too short and you have to take them again and again….

„Don’t worry, be happy“ would Bob Marley say.

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Good ideas!