I was thinking the tag for this week will be a very easy one to write on but obviously, it took me time to come up with my entry.
Everybody knows about happiness and have felt it at one point or the other no matter how bitter life could get for a person.
Yes, we can be happy but we must not forget that at some point in time, happy people still feel the range of humans emotions like anger, loneliness, frustration, boredom and sadness but happy people are happy people - They have an underlying sense of optimism to find what makes them happy in such situations and remain happy.
Happiness is a combination of positive emotions that involves feelings of joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, and contentment.
You are happy
- When you feel like your life is how you want it
- When you feel the conditions in your life is good enough
- When you feel positive more than being negative
- When you're contented with what you have
- When every achievement gives a feeling of fulfillment to you
Someone said Happiness is free and @attentionneeded in his post titled Can Happiness Be Bought said:
The best way to answer that is take a look around and tell me if there hasn’t been a moment that you were glad you got something that you really wanted at a time and the only way you could get it was through money
I agree with him because while happiness could be free, it can also be bought but not all kinds of happiness and that brings me to tell you of two kinds of happiness I came across.
Until now, I didn't think there are kinds of happiness and of course I didn't know which kind I have most. But here is the thing, there are Hedonia and Eudaimonia Happiness.. They are both important and common kinds of happiness so it doesn't matter if you have only one kind or have both kinds of happiness.
The Hedonia Happiness - Pleasure
Happiness you feel from pleasure and this kind is gotten from:
Enjoying what you love - You feel happiness within because you love what you do, like loving to write or sing.
Self Care - You feel happiness too when you care for yourself and compliment yourself, I still have hiccups in getting this part of happiness right.
Fulfilling desires - There's a meal you've been craving for or a movie you've always wanted to watch and it happened, that can give happiness of fulfillment.
This kind of happiness is experiencing enjoyment and feeling a sense of satisfaction in your life, most of this happiness can't be bought while some are free.
The Eudaimonia Happiness - Virtue And Meaning
Happiness you feel from virtue and meaning, you get this happiness from:
Fulfilling responsibilities - Being able to cater for your family, give your best in your workplace or at what you do, and also coming out in good grades from school gives a virtue and meaning kind of happiness.
Investing in long term goals - Not everyone can make a long term investment but some people get virtue and meaning happiness from doing so.
Concern for the welfare of other people - Have you seen a lot of people who are happy because they made someone happy? That is virtue and meaning happiness. They fill fulfilled to have put a smile on someone's face.
Living up to your own ideas and standard also gives the virtue and meaning happiness. I guess this kind of happiness deal more about our physical happiness.
Each kind of happiness is important as we would sometimes want to be happy through pleasure and sometimes want meaningful happiness - You can always have both kind of happiness.
I doubt if there is anyone who doesn't know how to be happy but here are ways you can cultivate your happiness if you don't know
- Learn to enjoy each moment of your life
- Go for goals that are achievable, not the impossible
- Always show gratitude even to the smallest deed done to you
- Try to get rid of negative thoughts, happiness is a positive thing.
- Do not seek people's approval in everything, criticism are everywhere.
- Learn to always smile
Thanks for reading!!!