Saturday, 4 February 2012

The Degree of Happiness

A sense of love can turn into happiness.
Happiness is a state of emotion that we feel through the course of events that we went through. Basically, we won't feel any sorts of happiness until we achieved the needs and goal that causes us to bring the happiness. Don't understand? Well take a look at the picture above. It shows a couple happy with each other. How did they reach that level of happiness? It is simple really. From the article I have read, "The Degree of Happiness" by Betrand Russell, he stated that Happiness can be distinguished as plain and fancy, or animal and spiritual or of the heart and of the head. These couples shared the same interest and ideas, suggesting they had their mutual feelings to each other, which then brings them up their own happiness. By seeing each other, they develop a sense of love and throughout the relationship they felt some sort of happiness.

So, what can we do in order to reach happiness? Well, firstly, you  need to know the happiness itself. How can we know when we are happy? In order to be happy, one's need to carter their own desire and fulfilling their needs. As I wrote this, i too can reach happiness as  I finished writing this review (haha). Anyway, Happiness can also comes naturally, or with some kind of event that can trigger happiness itself. For example, happiness that comes naturally is when we spend some quality times with family, friends, our special someone, in any way that makes us happy. Even being with them will bring us some kind of happiness inside ourself as we are comfortable with them. For the happiness that came with an event, I give my experience for example. I, as an avid gamer, have been playing role-playing video games which I acted as a hero and experiencing what the hero is going through and reaching the ending which gives some twist from sadness to a level of a happiness.  One of the games I have played and I reached a total happiness and bliss is Tales of Symphonia. The same goes if you are reading a novel that have a good ending.
Tales of Symphonia
Harley & Joker
In any case, Happiness can also be in a form where we don't even realize it. Such cases are bound to happen with psychology disorder or hypnosis. This kind of happiness is usually a fake kind of happiness and it can lead to harming others and eventually, despair. As an example to this is the fictional character Harley Quinn, from the comic books and story Batman. She is thought to be in love with the villain, The Joker, by the process of overwriting the mind. She then becomes obsess to find happiness with Joker which led most of her mind filled only with delusional thoughts of her and The Joker. For your information, this also happened in real life. There are many news nowadays regarding delusional happiness, the same as Harley's. Remember, too much pressure towards gaining happiness will lead you to mental breakdown.

Whatever it is, in our life, Happiness is the key to all sorts of wonder. Just being happy, you can affect others too. Just a smile to other people and they can feel some sort of happiness in their selves. remember, always to: