Happiness, an Introduction
Happiness is desired by most or even all, but for many, it seems to be a far off dream, not achievable or even that life is so miserable that to even consider happiness is foolhardy.
Far too many of us live, as the Buddhists say, a life of suffering. Most of us (myself included) have stories that are horrible and unimaginable to others, and yet somehow we found the will and way to survive. But surviving is what most of us do far too many times, and we can feel angered and helpless in our stories if survival plays over and over like a broken record forever spinning on the turntable of life.
And how many times have we tried to change our lives, and as much as we do, very little seems to change and once again we find ourselves wishing and hoping that one day we will find happiness.
I hope that what I am sharing with you helps you take that broken record off that turntable and replace it with a record of happiness forever turning and knowing that life is good.
Whatever bad things that happened to you, it should not have been that way and I am so sorry it had to be so hard. You deserve to find a way to make life a bit easier every day and fill it with the state of happiness and the promise of a future filled with love and joy.
So, what is happiness?
Happiness, in psychology, is a state of emotional well-being that a person experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things happen in a specific moment, or more broadly, as a positive evaluation of one’s life and accomplishments overall—that is, subjective well-being.
Happiness can be described as a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment.
These writings are about my search for happiness and ultimately achieving it. I was a software engineer by trade and, with that background, I was looking for a structural approach to finding happiness. Most of what I discovered were more like steps to follow or techniques to use to find your happiness and, although they helped me a little, I still wanted a structural map of what is happiness or a handbook of being human.
I am not an intellectual but am a keen observer and an intensely curious individual. What I present below are the results of my observations and help I received from many teachers along the way. Although I cannot prove what I will write about, I do know for myself and others that I have helped on this journey, and found it useful and more importantly, it worked.
Although I am not sure who originally said this, I find it true: in life, you are either learning or you are dying.
There is always an opportunity to discover and learn. Would you not agree that mastering the learnings about happiness is relevant, useful, and meaningful?
“We have to learn how to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get steady and stable happiness.”
Dalai Lama
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