Re: Enduring Happiness
hapiness is felt.
Anything that is felt by a subject is subjective
Judgement of any subject is relative to her own mental norms.
However those norms are volatile, and environemtly depending.
To extract oneself from this volatility we have to set a fixed referential, that is relative to onself: ie.To best assess hapiness, one has to ponder it against "unhapiness"
So the highest hapiness can hardly be felt by those who've never dealt with high unhapiness.
As Dushwari nicely explained some events triggers hapiness, other unhapiness, among people of diverse cultural background.
The most "happy" people, are also the most impacted by sorrows, grieveing,etc...
If money can't buy hapiness, it may be because wealthy people live less hardhship in life, so they can not "judge" hapiness...they are unable to enjoy life, cause they have not suffered previously.
I am also believeing one has to know how to risk deep unhapiness to discover real hapiness: if you don't take the risk to love deeply (which could cause hard heartache), then you' ll never get hapiness associated to deep human bonding.
So protecting oneself against unhapiness, may actually keep hapiness far from you..
Maybe? just a thought...