I was thinking the tag for this week will be a very easy one to write on but obviously, it took me time to come up with my entry.
Everybody knows about happiness and have felt it at one point or the other no matter how bitter life could get for a person.
Yes, we can be happy but we must not forget that at some point in time, happy people still feel the range of humans emotions like anger, loneliness, frustration, boredom and sadness but happy people are happy people - They have an underlying sense of optimism to find what makes them happy in such situations and remain happy.
Happiness is a combination of positive emotions that involves feelings of joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, and contentment.
You are happy
- When you feel like your life is how you want it
- When you feel the conditions in your life is good enough
- When you feel positive more than being negative
- When you're contented with what you have
- When every achievement gives a feeling of fulfillment to you
Someone said Happiness is free and @attentionneeded in his post titled Can Happiness Be Bought said:
The best way to answer that is take a look around and tell me if there hasn’t been a moment that you were glad you got something that you really wanted at a time and the only way you could get it was through money
I agree with him because while happiness could be free, it can also be bought but not all kinds of happiness and that brings me to tell you of two kinds of happiness I came across.
Until now, I didn't think there are kinds of happiness and of course I didn't know which kind I have most. But here is the thing, there are Hedonia and Eudaimonia Happiness.. They are both important and common kinds of happiness so it doesn't matter if you have only one kind or have both kinds of happiness.
The Hedonia Happiness - Pleasure
Happiness you feel from pleasure and this kind is gotten from:
Enjoying what you love - You feel happiness within because you love what you do, like loving to write or sing.
Self Care - You feel happiness too when you care for yourself and compliment yourself, I still have hiccups in getting this part of happiness right.
Fulfilling desires - There's a meal you've been craving for or a movie you've always wanted to watch and it happened, that can give happiness of fulfillment.
This kind of happiness is experiencing enjoyment and feeling a sense of satisfaction in your life, most of this happiness can't be bought while some are free.
The Eudaimonia Happiness - Virtue And Meaning
Happiness you feel from virtue and meaning, you get this happiness from:
Fulfilling responsibilities - Being able to cater for your family, give your best in your workplace or at what you do, and also coming out in good grades from school gives a virtue and meaning kind of happiness.
Investing in long term goals - Not everyone can make a long term investment but some people get virtue and meaning happiness from doing so.
Concern for the welfare of other people - Have you seen a lot of people who are happy because they made someone happy? That is virtue and meaning happiness. They fill fulfilled to have put a smile on someone's face.
Living up to your own ideas and standard also gives the virtue and meaning happiness. I guess this kind of happiness deal more about our physical happiness.
Each kind of happiness is important as we would sometimes want to be happy through pleasure and sometimes want meaningful happiness - You can always have both kind of happiness.
I doubt if there is anyone who doesn't know how to be happy but here are ways you can cultivate your happiness if you don't know
- Learn to enjoy each moment of your life
- Go for goals that are achievable, not the impossible
- Always show gratitude even to the smallest deed done to you
- Try to get rid of negative thoughts, happiness is a positive thing.
- Do not seek people's approval in everything, criticism are everywhere.
- Learn to always smile
Thanks for reading!!!
Did you know, that just smiling for 1 minute without any reason for smiling does a lot of good to the whole body? I tried it out, it feels strange at frist, but it changes something suddenly :-)
came here over @dreemport ;-) ist seems, they want to connect us, nice to meet you once again today
I do know about how smiling changes things if one would smile more.
It's nice to meet you again, thanks for leaving a comment behind
Nice one!!!! people these days search more for physical happiness of luxuries than internal happiness that deals with feelings of joy and satisfaction.
Thanks for sharing.
Exactly, happiness shouldn't be about the luxuries only
Thanks
I so many like this post. We create our own happiness and I so much derive joy from things that I do.
Most times when am working and singing at the same time, I find myself smiling and I wonder why I'm smiling, it's because am happy.
That's a level of happiness people should get to, smiling for almost no reason and be happy even in hard situations.
Thanks dear 😊
A great post sadly so many these days tie there happiness to possessions or bank balances, which is a false sort of happiness in my mind.
true happiness comes from little things, whether it be a small act of a friend a flower in beautiful light, whatever brings us inner joy
That is it, little things matters a lot in making one happy and not the big and expensive things.
Thanks Jay 😊
Exactly and the sooner more people see that the better the world will be
Happiness is indeed free, but I guess we just get sidetracked by the things of the world and let them affect us.
And that's bad to know, I hope we learn to be happy without all that
A few might but most wouldn't.
This is very true
Because when ones life is not going according to his/her plan or going totally down hill or opposite,it's hard to be happy.