How to measure happiness?

[ffraxis]

Re: How to measure happiness?

you measure happiness based on the amount of hormones your body releases. Different for every person.

[Aldentron]

Re: How to measure happiness?

I think it is different for everybody.
The way I have it figured out is that everybody is on a scale, 1 being the absolute lowest they've ever felt, and 10 being the happiest they've ever felt.
If your absolute lowest feeling occurred when your most significant relationship ended, then that is your 1. Let's say your friend was raped, that makes their 1 lower than yours. It's a scale that depends on what you've experienced in your lifetime.

On the other end of the spectrum, by that logic, I think that somebody who has lived through a greater amount of troubles also has the potential to be happier than some one who hasn't. If you give a toy to a child on a playground, they will probably be happy to play with it. If you give a toy to a child at their parents' funeral, imagine how much greater of an impact it would have as opposed to the kid on the playground.

It's hard for me to describe things in such relativity, so I apologize if this doesn't make sense.

[linky123456]

Re: How to measure happiness?

I agree with aldentron. Hypothetically, If you had multiple close friends die everyday, a day where only 1 close friend died would be a good day for you. Where as someone who has never had a close friend die, 1 death in a day would be a terrible day.

I'm generally a happy person, and I find that rating how happy I am makes me more sad then I need to be.

Also, accept that life has no purpose and get over it and start enjoying yourself.