The Degree of Happiness

Life will be more meaningful if we live our life happily. Happiness is not only cheer our life but also it may affect our health.

Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A happy person will have possibility to have a good health and longevity.

As I read on the article ‘The Degree of Happiness’ by Betrand Russell. What can I understand is they are two sort of of happiness. The first is open to any human being and the other only to  those who can read or write.

Example that had been given by the author gives us a view that we can be happy on whatever we do as it will not gives us a pressure but it will gives us a pleasure of doing it. As a human kind we are no exception of having a problem. However, a problem does not mean that we are having a time of losing our happiness. As well as been stated on the article that  the gardener are having a problem with rabbits that destroy his garden, but he speaks exactly as a policeman speak to a criminals and he consider them as dark, designing, and ferocious and like the knight of the round table he spent every day hunting his mortal foe.

Back day before, the happiest people are the men of science. This is because their work gives them self satisfaction as the public also can accept the fact even though they cannot understand it and conclude that their education has been insufficient. Different than artist and literary men consider it necessary to be unhappy in their life such as in marriage. The reason is when the public cannot understand a picture or a poem, they will conclude it as a bad picture or poem.

As my understanding, we should not think or care on any obstacles for us for having our own happiness. It is our freedom to do whatever we need in order to feel happy as long it is not over the limit.