Happiness Is The Certainty Of Not Feeling Lost
How many times have we wondered if we are really happy? Why do we sometimes feel so lost that we don’t know exactly what direction to take? Finding the meaning of our life is discovering, at least in part, the key to happiness.
The old discussion from the world of philosophy and psychology about what it means to be happy in everyday life has come to be considered in terms of whether it exists or not, if it is just something transitory or if you can really be happy. The discussion, as always, has a lot to do with the question of what we call happiness.
Depending on it, our well-being will become something impossible, something transitory or something capable of being achieved. In recent years, different studies have been carried out around the concept of happiness, reaching different conclusions.
They have also tried to establish lines of separation and relationship with other closely related concepts, such as joy. In any case, what most authors agree on is that in the definition of happiness there is a subjective part that each person has to discover and define, which is perhaps why it is so fascinating.
Happiness is an internal personal state
We can be happy and unhappy; we can be sad and happy. This is collected by a longitudinal study based on the happiness of people from more than 148 countries, where the conclusion is drawn that this concept is an internal state and that it does not have as much to do with what happens to us from the skin to the outside as from the skin inward.
According to this study on happiness, Spaniards live an average of 58.8 happy years. This data places the country at the top of a list made up of a total of 148 nations, which represents a large representation (specifically, more than 95% of the world’s population).
The conclusions of another longitudinal macro-study from Harvard defend: that happiness is a lasting internal state and that it is not the product of a casual and transitory event that depends on how well things go. Thought in this way, our well-being could be related to inner tranquility, to spiritual peace, an internal feeling of serenity, tranquility and certainty that fills us and fills us with a pleasant satisfaction with respect to life.
Happiness is intimately linked with finding our way
As Jorge Bucay said, happiness can also be defined as the certainty of not feeling lost. This author, in line with the new research on personal well-being, affirms that being happy has a lot to do with knowing our direction.
Happiness is not about getting anywhere, but about going in the right direction. It does not refer to the vain joy that can be born of having achieved, or being able to achieve, what others did not achieve. This does not make very few or no one happy. It is a lie that happiness has to do with these silly achievements that, once they are achieved, you need to find a new one because the finished one has already expired.
Happiness participates and is nourished by the clear mind that directs you in one direction. Enjoy the challenges when the path we have chosen is in tune with the values we support, when you have the confidence that whatever happens you can always look at the compass and keep moving forward, growing and living adventures. Precisely, in that emotion, happiness is recreated, grows and floods us.
