In search of happiness

The questions:

What is happiness?

Can we each achieve it?

Is it about managing expectations?

Why would anyone be unhappy?

Are expectations a good thing?

Does having low needs and low expectations leave you open to exploitation?

Are our needs and wants really what we think they are?

Are we being honest with ourselves?

The answers:

I don’t have many answers to these questions but that doesn’t put me off searching. I have sort happiness all my life and rarely found it. I think I may have been looking in the wrong places.

I have decided to double my efforts and look again. If I find it I’ll let you know.

Happiness in magazines

What is happiness?

Is it attainable?

The world is full of idiots who see material wealth as the key to happiness. The queues for the latest iPhone prove that.

Money doesn’t buy happiness. I suppose that’s easy for me to say that as I’m a ‘have’. For the ‘have nots’ it’s a harder concept to grasp. And quite rightly so. I’m a firm believer in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in as much as all people require a certain level of comfort to feel happy. Other than that happiness is a state of mind generated by the self and cannot be induced by acquiring wealth.

Happiness comes from within.

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness” – Zhuangzi