Thread: What Makes One Truly Happy

Originally Posted by Arakasi

Studies have shown that the ratio of happy to unhappy people is the same from all social groups. The idea that money does not buy you happiness is true, as many rich people, in relative terms, are as unhappy as poor people.

Basically happiness is a genetic trait, you are born with or without a predisposition for happiness. This is obviously impacted by events in your life, but generally you are either a happy person, or not, regarless of your lot in life.

I feel that this is utterly incorrect. And there's an easy way to show it's wrong. Have you ever heard of the happiness rating of a country? Well, that rating has a huge range throughout the world. That is far from an equal ratio of happy to unhappy people. It's called the satisfaction with life index: Satisfaction with Life Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Happiness comes from doing something you want to do in life. People become unhappy when they take jobs just to make money or take a job that they don't actually like and get stuck with it. All they do is work and are too tired or just don't have the motivation to do something they actually want to do in their free time. Accomplishing goals lead to happiness. If you don't set yourself any goals of course you won't be happy.