A lot of people keep calling happiness “relative.” But it has been said so many times that people just glaze over it and don’t truly understand happiness, they think it has to do with something of how you are doing in your life, specifically, with your successes. Comparing your successes such as an education, relationships and most importantly (especially in our materialistic saturated society) m-o-n-e-y. Everyone keeps sizing the people next to them to how ever much they make and how they are their own influence in that (working too hard or merely working: both bragging). That’s why happiness is relative, because it is relative to you and only you. The success of true happiness is looking into other people’s bowls to see if they have enough-- not if they have more than you. Because the money from the lottery is just a materialistic ability to make your life not as bad, does not mean your life will be better because everyone else’s life is worse than you. Your happiness is only based on you, and the money you win on a scratch off ticket from 7-11 will only change the bad things, but only you can your life and make it a great
A lot of people keep calling happiness “relative.” But it has been said so many times that people just glaze over it and don’t truly understand happiness, they think it has to do with something of how you are doing in your life, specifically, with your successes. Comparing your successes such as an education, relationships and most importantly (especially in our materialistic saturated society) m-o-n-e-y. Everyone keeps sizing the people next to them to how ever much they make and how they are their own influence in that (working too hard or merely working: both bragging). That’s why happiness is relative, because it is relative to you and only you. The success of true happiness is looking into other people’s bowls to see if they have enough-- not if they have more than you. Because the money from the lottery is just a materialistic ability to make your life not as bad, does not mean your life will be better because everyone else’s life is worse than you. Your happiness is only based on you, and the money you win on a scratch off ticket from 7-11 will only change the bad things, but only you can your life and make it a great