Question:
How do you define happiness?
Asked by Anonymous
Answer:
For me, happiness is partially about being content— content with yourself, content with your life, content with your surroundings, etc.— but that’s not all it is, because you can be content without really being happy. I can be okay with or content with how things are, but in a more neutral, neither happy nor sad way.
What makes the contentment into happiness is the element of joy. Feeling glad, taking pleasure in life, in yourself, valuing and appreciating what you have— that’s joy. I’m not just okay with the way things are, I love the way things are, I appreciate them and take pleasure from them.
So, short answer: For me, contentment + joy = happiness.
