It’s hard to track the effects of some NFTs, but the thoughts that weren’t there but have started to occur are probably a strong indicator of the effect itself
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Larousse’s famous French dictionary states: happiness is a state of complete satisfaction (bonheur - état de satisfaction complete). I noticed that the origin of the word “happiness” in French is very humble: bonheur is just bon heur, that is, a good hour. Apparently, people used to be more modest and didn’t demand much from life.
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It seems to me - happiness is about being generally satisfied with life and taking chronic pleasure in it. To me, there are two main components to this definition: overall satisfaction and its duration. I guess general satisfaction does not imply that one has absolutely everything life can provide, but one has something essential to happiness. And happiness is a lasting state (a happy childhood, a happy old age, a happy life) rather than a short-term reaction, which we would rather call joy.
I know that Freud did not believe that psychotherapy could make a person happy. He doubted the possibility of happiness and said that the task of psychoanalysis was only to replace neurotic suffering with ordinary human pain. “Happiness by its very nature is possible only as an episodic phenomenon,” he wrote. lol
But! I like the wise statement attributed to Freud that a happy person happily goes to work in the morning and happily goes home from work in the evening. I modify this definition a bit for myself: a happy person understands in the morning that there is no need to go to work, and in the evening understands that there is no need to go tomorrow either (but that’s a joke).
Like many people on this Earth, I have always been interested in the question of whether happiness is achievable in principle, that is, whether it is possible to be happy based on the definition of happiness for a long time, ideally for a lifetime. Second: if it is possible in principle, what do I have to do to achieve it?
Happiness of life, which does not depend on time or place of life, nor on gender, nor on age, nor on culture, nor on the current situation in the country or in the world. As Professor Dumbledore said in Harry Potter: “Happiness can be found even in the hardest of times, you just have to strive for the light.”
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A person who enjoys going to work, but tries to stay there as long as possible because he doesn’t feel like going home, cannot be called happy. A person who does not want to wake up in the morning and go to work cannot be called happy either. A happy person is happy from morning till night and, most importantly, from evening till morning. Happiness is a chronic condition.
By the way, theologians for the most part believed that happiness on earth (paradise on earth) is unattainable, that our earthly and physical life is a kind of punishment for our sins, and that happiness is attainable only on the other side of life. This is the version I have heard many times from different cultures.
Other people have argued that life is happiness.
But along this line of reasoning, if life itself is designed in such a way that it can and should bring us chronic pleasure, why doesn’t this often happen? For myself personally, I’ve begun to realize that the most important thing to enjoy life is to get just two basic processes right: getting everything you need to live, and getting rid of everything you don’t need and get in the way of life…
What is the benchmark of a happy person for me? For example, if I have problems (and healthy people have problems too), I should not put them off, I should solve them
I think the big problem with a person who doesn’t know how to live happily?
It’s the inability to say “no”.
and I used to have a problem saying no to someone, refusing them.
Some studies show that at the end of life, many people worry because they have had too little time with their loved ones, too little travel, that this was not enough for their happiness.
But I once came across a paper by other scientists who write that these conclusions don’t really apply to reality. Many people worry at the end of their lives, not that they didn’t travel enough with their loved ones, but that they endured too much, waited too long to be understood, appreciated, thanked.
you know what I mean? :)
Life isn’t supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to be happy.
thank you all for this gift. 
