My Professor asked me that, and I can't seem to find that answer in me yet. I want to know your thoughts.
Orz, depends on what subject he was, and, truth to be told, it depends on him, since he can just call every answer wrong till something satisfies him, Like, Hormones Being your ideal person Leaching off to someone
being happy~ what else tho? you can throw whatever jargon, term of condition, logic, philosophy, argument and whatnot then again back to~ feel happy? this cat sometimes wonder people do think various stuff and try classify, put order and law to everything~ maybe it human instinct to make it understandable or explainable cuz fear of unknown~ or just usual curiosity kill human cat
That implies there is not genuine happiness but what would that be? Pretend happiness social media style? Does he consider happiness to be a long-time thing or short outburts of joy?
Reading a good book while doing camping No anyway lol, makes me remember my philosophy lesson back in france. How is defined happiness first? For french philosopher, it is the constant state of joy. Because we clearly differenciate happiness (bonheur in french) from joy (joie/heureux), which is a momentary feeling due to the hormone. Here comes the catch though, can we be continuously in a feeling of joy? The answer is no, joy is like a drug, the more you feel it, the harder it is the achieve this state and the more transient it becomes. In short, the more joy you feel, the shorter this feeling will be and the harder it will become to feel it again. Hence, real happiness can't exist, because happiness in itself is impossible to achieve by definition. The best human can do is to set a standard of what he can expect from life, enjoy the moment where you exceed this state and do your best when you are under to go up once again.
Loving yourself because by loving yourself you will be satisfied with your surroundings and without realizing it you will be happy for those moments with others and so on.
when you have a smile on your face, ( while doing something or being somewhere or spending time with somebody or anything) but you don't even realize yourself about that.
Happiness is just a chemical reaction that produces dopamine so if we talk about true happiness just use a drug you would always be happy but you will always be happy that's the problem of lifelong happiness when you are happy all time you don't know you experiencing happiness, happiness only comes when you suffer so true happiness should be by overcoming difficult times.
Ecstasy. Jokes aside, which device or faculty can quantify an abstract value like happiness? All we have is 'perspective'— "a weak instrument, though necessary".
It's something like pure energy inside you, you remember when you're a child and you felt energetic and can't sleep because you're too happy for tomorrow. That's basically it. There are way too many answers for this already, but they're mostly taken from a glass half empty perspective, and it's just sad.
Happiness is individual. mcmunhuu answer is correct from many points. Mostly biological and phycological. But I believe that true happiness is when you can look back at your life and say with happy smile that your life was worth living and you don't have to feel guilty about anything (important)!
Choice. Choosing happiness is the only true happiness. Anything external from us will always lead to temporary happiness. Anything chemical will always be changable. So only making an effort and choosing happiness for ourselves everyday will happiness become goal, then a habit, then a life long commitment.
There's no real definition of genuine happiness. Everyone has different likes and dislikes after all.