What is happiness?

What is happiness? Happiness is an emotion or feeling ranging from contentment to intense joy. Sadness, love, guilt, hate and many others are also emotions. All emotions have causes, causes which can be understood and controlled. Happiness is a long lasting enjoyment of life and not just momentary where you lived a life by collecting moments of pleasure.

One has to have confidence in mind and have the virtues that make our life worth living to experience a result - an earned pride and a genuine self-esteen. And of course happiness. We would feel satisfied when we finished something something we have wanted to do and would feel happy. This would eventually make our day. More wealth doesn't equal to more happiness as happiness cannot be bought by money but this is not for every case. Then what about sacrificing for others? Some people are greedy and hate to give something they own to others even if they do not want it. Yet, some people donate willingly and feel pleased after seeing many people benefit from the money they donated. Happiness is not what you think it is, it is what your actions do.



Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.