True. I would add be happy without hurting others.
And a measure of a person is what brings him/her this happiness.
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True. I would add be happy without hurting others.
And a measure of a person is what brings him/her this happiness.
Yes, agreed to both of those.
But I also think that anything called "happiness" that is at someone else's expense isn't actually happiness. Fleeting pleasure maybe.
Excellent point. Looks like we are on the same page about "happiness".
Thank you so much for the gift! It was an unexpected pleasure - which got me thinking further about the relationship between pleasure and happiness. Today's thinking on that is - ideally, happiness (or, even better, joy) would be our default setting, and it's an inside job, not reliant on what is happening around us. Though there will be times when we are experiencing other emotions, we would ideally come back to a happy state. Pleasure is the icing on the cake. It can intensify our happiness temporarily, but whether its good for us depends on whether it adds to our permanent happy state or ultimately detracts from it.
I probably don't need to go on, as I'm sure you get it completely. But relating this back to the original story - your current job gives you pleasure and satisfaction that feeds your internal happiness. You could still make a choice to be happy in another kind of job, and the extra money could enable you to do things that would be pleasurable. But you wouldn't get the same nourishment on a daily basis.