Happiness is a state of mind, but do you really know what makes you happy? I know the things that make me happy, my beautiful classic Jaguar, my lovely sexy humorous hubby, my adorable children, and gorgeous grandchildren.
I know what would make me even happier, my dream home, being comfortably well off so that I never had to worry about how I was going to pay the next unexpected bill or tax demand.
Oh yea, winning a huge lottery would make me ecstatic and would put me in a position to make all those I love happier as well! I read an article 'What makes us happy 'By Anja Merret and watched a video via this article.
I got an awful desire to kick the ass of the guy in the video who is trying to convince people that they make their own happiness, you have just got to take a look at this, and it is absolute BS.
If what is said on this article or video is true than I have an abnormal brain, because I believe in freedom of choice, and I for one wouldn't give it up to become a drone! I love making my own choices in life and would fight tooth and nail to keep it for myself or anyone else.
I have had to work an eight hour day boring job repetitive job on occasion in order to survive and pay the bills, and it made me as miserable as sin, the majority of people who have or have had to do this will tell you the same thing.
There are a handful of people who are the exception to this rule of thumb, but they are the ones who have given up on life, lost hope for a better future and merely exist day to day, and in some cases are the ones who end up committing suicide from the depression it causes them inside.
The things in life that have made me the most miserable are the things I had no control over, such as losing two of my children, Benjamin to a Cot Death, and my daughter Natasha that I lost to cancer at the age of twelve, whose last wishes I am keeping.
Now I found this article and video even more offensive than maybe some people would because I know for a fact that some things in life no matter how your brain is wired and when the Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says that we synthesise our happiness, I believe that he should consider the fact that some events in life can be so unbearable that this would be impossible to achieve under those circumstances! This blows his theory out of the water.
You cannot tell me the Jews were happy to be rounded up and killed in concentration camps during WWII, and I cannot see that the Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists in Myanmar, formerly Burma would agree with this article either.
I found it extremely irritation watching this guy on video, because freedom and freedom of choice has always made me happier, I love controlling my own path in life, and if this was taken away from me I would be devastated.
I hate dictatorships and to imply that living under one would make people happy makes me think this guy is a total nutcase.
The only thing this guy's video did for me was to inspire me to write this article, as I was really offended to think that this guy is giving presentation and making loads of money by talking such an utter load of garbage, while strutting around like a Peacock on stage, and thank God I have the freedom to do so, now writing this article has made me feel happy! How about you?