Happiness Happens Day 2024 is on Thursday, August 8, 2024: Do you think happiness makes things happen?

Thursday, August 8, 2024 is Happiness Happens Day 2024. Happiness Happens Day Blogs & Interview - The Secret Society of ... 13th Annual Happiness Day

Established in 1999 as "Admit You're Happy Day" by the Secret Society of Pleased Individuals, Happiness Happens Day intends to spread out the delight of being happy, and to convince individuals to look on the brighter side of life.

Happiness is infectious, so if you enjoy, say to a person! If someone else enjoys, hear them!

Happiness begets happiness? Maybe.

If I'm in a happy mood, I might tip a waitress extra at a restaurant or give a homeless guy $5. In turn they might at least smile and have a somewhat happier day, and in their own way somehow pass it along to others.

Or, the waitress might end up being slain by a serial killer later that night, and the homeless guy might fall into a drunken stupor after chugging his $5 bottle of Colt 45 and get hit by a bus. In that case, while no humans would be made happy, maybe some bacteria and insects would be by getting an easy meal.

Who knows. Life's like that, full of grim surprises.

what is happiness exactly?

Happiness is subjective.

People usually try to define it as being blissfully happy, but even that is dependent on situations, elements and surrounding elements falling neatly into place on a simultaneous basis that appears to

go on if allowed to run uninterrupted.

I think it's more important to focus on contentment rather than a feeling of happiness, because there is always the chance that something that makes you happy could in fact antagonize other people or random strangers, you can never tell unless you happen to be quite adept at predicting human nature.

Given the sometimes fragile emotional state one requires to be sufficiently satiated in order to maintain a certain level of happiness, in some regards, happiness is sometimes best experienced in the minds eye of a child, where very little is allowed to directly threaten this mindset when a child is reasonably certain, that their parents will always be there to protect them from any potential outside influence that could potentially harm them or shock their naive view of society, the world and human life in general.

That of course is ideal, but in some respects, unless you have a guaranteed source of family income, there is no economic means to safeguard your family from experiencing the downside to "perfect family harmony" which is usually what happens whenever an outside influence creeps into and disrupts the resonance of family harmony.

I can't say how this will turn out for you, but adopting a realistic point of view regarding things beyond your control is a healthy step in the right direction.

Happiness is an emotional frame of mind, you can also get caught in a cycle of external influences where you require certain things to be present in order to maintain a certain threshold or framework with which to support a general frame of mind that is conducive to a general comforting frame of less stress coming into your mind as well as less stress going out of your mind into the environment that you share with your family.

Last of all, if you need another avenue to pursue that isn't a religion or social club, try goggling the concept behind "self-actualization", if you find the one I saw that uses a pyramid to describe various levels, then it's a half page and easy to digest in a few minutes, but the results are amazing if you make it a cognizant part of every waking moment in your life.

In a sense, if you can focus on things that are unrelated to happiness as a central theme, then over time, you may find, that if you already have all the intangibles of a happy life, then it's not the constant presence or awareness of happiness that is necessarily "missing" from your life, but the ability to enjoy that which you already have might be part of a different issue altogether.

Depending on your personality, how imperative is it for you to display or experience a feeling or sense of happiness that actually makes you happy, if you can't think of anything tangible besides a well-organized family environment, then you may just be suffering from a case of the "is that all there is to life" mild depression.

Perhaps what is really bothering you is a lack of conflict in your life, a perfect or ideal family environment may in fact leave you open to focusing too much on what you already have by assuming you don't have enough "happiness" given what you described already.

Maybe an ideal family life isn't what makes you happy, a lot of people would love to have a fraction of what you describe as seemingly a "routine day" in the life of a harmonious family unit.

If what you have doesn't give you enough happiness, then the real question is, what's missing from your life that will give you enough joy, that you will no longer pine for a semblance of happiness or another emotion that once you've identified what emotional element is missing from your frame of mind, then you can begin to identify whatever it is that's preventing you from enjoying that which you already possess....

Philosophers: Why do we seek for happiness if it is only in our consciousness?

Hi Third P.

Our consciousness is basically who we are, in its simplest form. It is our awareness of everything, our senses. It is everything we experience.

What we seek to experience is enjoyment, pleasure. That does not necessarily mean anything wild or extreme; it can be quiet pleasure. It's enjoyment of our senses. And our senses seek pleasure, i.e., happiness.

Happiness is not a bad thing; it is also not something that lasts forever. That is where many people go wrong. They seek happiness as if it were a state of being that could be reached & maintained. It's not.

I believe that what we should seek as a continuum is contentment. I have reached that level, and I am very grateful for that. It took many years & a lot of hard work to reach this level of peace & contentment that stays with me. It was only by learning to stop seeking happiness as a constant state that I was able to get to this level of contentment.

I think of it as a straight line. That line is contentment. We live, on a daily basis (if lucky), along that line of contentment. Then there are days where the line spikes up into the realm of happiness. We enjoy that until it passes; then we return to the constant state of contentment. There are also days where that line dips into lows of unhappiness, pain or sadness. We experience that, also, until it passes. Then we again return to that constant line of contentment.

The mistake that so many people make is believing that happiness is the state of being that we should be living on a constant basis. Because they never reach this, they remain unhappy.

If they stop this meaningless search for constant happiness, they may then find that their lives please them, that they are, indeed content. If they reach this awareness, they are lucky. It is a great gift to have contentment in one's life. It is then that we can truly enjoy the moments of happiness, when they occur, and tolerate the moments of sadness when they occur.

Everything we experience is in our consciousness. That means we are awake & aware of what is happening to us, what we are feeling. If it were not for our consciousness, there would be no contentment, no happiness, nothing. It would mean we are not even awake to these feelings or any other.

Seek contentment; happiness will follow.

Peace.