In society today, the word happiness plastered around the media. But that begs the question, what is happiness? Some say it is a constant state, something I could reach. Others believe it is something that can only be scattered throughout my life. From the time I was young I have been told that all I need is happiness. This has brought me to question the concept of happiness. What does happiness mean?
In magazines and social media everywhere, the word happiness appears. The secrets to happiness based on various individuals all over media seem to jump on everyone who is plugged in. The pressure society exerts upon people to be happy is immense. This world is obsessed with a constant state of contentment which we know to be unattainable.
Happy is a word described as an emotion, similar to cheerful and merry, but
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This article was posted on March 25, 2016 on Psychology Today. Ivtzan's thesis is that happiness is fleeting because both eudaimonic and hedonic happiness cannot stay in our lives. He has three main points in this article. The first being his description of what hedonic happiness is ("when a certain event triggers a fabulous feeling")(Ivtzan) and how it tends to disappear faster than we realize. In his second point he writes of eudainomic happiness (how well you connect your purpose in life to your actual life) and how it can be painful in the present but beneficial in the long run. He ends his article with his third point saying, how both the feelings of hedonic happiness and eudainomic happiness are fleeting and cannot stay with us long. This article has parts that I agree with and parts that I am hesitant to agree with. I agree that hedonic happiness needs to be fleeting and that both of these types of happiness cannot last forever but I wonder if the pain that eudainomic happiness brings is worth the end