Happiness Comes From Oneself And The Society…..
“Happiness is not about money but society that is engaged “ -Prof Ed. Diener
Is it the government’s job to make people happy ?
Those who demur would argue that happiness is within you. But Professor Ed. Diener ,the happiness guru, thinks that the argument that happiness is within oneself has been “over-emphasised “. He said that “It is also within a society and city ……and that leaders should foster happiness”
The governament’s job is not just to provide clean water , but also happiness ,along with well-being , according to the Professor.
The Professor said that happiness is good for creativity and entrepreneurship. “If people are in distress and worry only about their problems , they don’t have time to be creative. And happy citizens make happy and productive workers.
Then what is happiness ? The Professor emphasised that happiness has got a lot to do with satisfaction and contentment, minimal negative emotions and being engaged with the community and at work. That means happiness is not just about smiling and laughing, being ecstatic and proclaiming “great” or “super”. Prof Diener said that in a happy society , the people are very cooperative and trust each other , there is more voluntarism and the people love peace.
You can spend so much time fretting about the past and things that cannot be changed, and worrying about the future and things which may never happen , that you lose the joy and fullness of the now, the present . There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
One must realise that in order to be happier, in order to get more out of life, one did not have to go and change the world. The world is already beautiful. The world is not ‘perfect’ . The degree of our unhappiness is the distance between the way thngs are and the way they “ought” to be. If one cease to demand things to be perfect, the business of being happy may become easier. We will then choose to have preferences for the way things might be, and decide that if our peferences are not met, we will be happy anyway.
Everyone wants to be happy… Everyone desires happines .This is another kind of wanting of desire… So I will give you the secret to happiness. If you want to be happy …….
JUST BE HAPPY……..
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