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The True Measure Of Happiness
Most people would judge a person who is always smiling, laughing and
giggling to be a happy and jolly person. However, are the smiles and
the laughter of a person enough for others to say that he is happy?
Happiness is more than smiling and showing a happy facade. Remember,
people are great pretenders. Some individuals may be laughing or grinning
on the outside, but in the inside, their hearts are crying and in pain.
Happiness is also not measured by the status in life that an individual
is in. Whoever said that the rich is happier than the poor and vice
versa is wrong. The feeling of being happy is relative and the ways
to attain it is different for everyone.
What Is Happiness?
Almost every person has his or her own personal search or journey to
find happiness. Just like a pot of gold at the end if a rainbow, everyone
tries to find it in different kinds of places, things, and people.
There is no actual and concrete definition of happiness (well, unless
you philosophically define it as “the state of being happy”).
Each person has his or her own version of happiness. What’s “happy”
for one may still be “unhappy “for someone else, and what’s
“unhappy” for someone else may already be great joy to another.
How to Be Happy
Perhaps the simplest and greatest way to lead a person to become happy
is by letting go of one’s selfish desires. By ceasing to think
for oneself, one begins to be happy. Sacrifice is a great step towards
happiness. Although most people would say that in order to be happy,
they have to do a lot of things for themselves, buy numerous material
things such as clothes, gadgets, houses, cars, etc., the greatest way
to be happy is to learn that it is not in pleasing oneself that man
becomes happy; it is by striving to please and serve others, to try
and make other people smile, that would truly make a person happy.
The material things that bring us joy are only what we can call “superficial
happiness”. Admittedly, it brings us happiness, but not complete
and absolute happiness. Don’t go investing too much on material
things because in the end, it’s what you do, the sacrifices that
you made, the people that you love and love you are the ones who can
truly determine your happiness.
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