The Nature of Happiness

[_asphodel_]

Happiness- what is it? How does one find it? Are you able to hold on to it once you do?
I've been thinking about happiness and the different levels of that feeling- or perhaps they are totally other feelings? How do you know you are happy? Is happiness a form of contentment? What is joy?

What do you think?
Please share.

Comments

[tweet62]

I think (I'm happy)
Therefore I am

[deadpansev]

Happiness seems to be fleeting moments of joy like when you have a really good night, I think contentment is a better goal. I don't think contentment is happiness, but it is a more sustainable form of happiness.

[tomt64]

I believe that in attempting to define it you lose sight of what it is. It is an emotion, a feeling. It is something that you can't just pin down. Just experience it :)