Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The secret to a happy life
Crikey, what a day today is for this blog. Not only am I giving you the reason why humans are more intelligent than animals, but now for the secret to a happy life! I should charge for this.
Anyway it is this: Do not compete or compare yourself or your circumstances to anyone else's.
This is why: The "happiness quotient" of any given situation is relative to someone else's situation. So if you don't contemplate how happy someone else is in their situation, you'll be none the wiser as to how happy you should be.
For example, take being stuck in a traffic jam, of which there are two lanes, and suddenly the other lane starts moving forward. Does this make you more peeved than when the other lane was stationary? Probably, as we're only human. But your situation hasn't changed, but the H.Q (my acronym for Happiness Quotient) has gone down relative to the other persons, since they are happier since they are moving. But if your situation hasn't changed, logically there's no reason to be unhappy. So stop it by not comparing your situations!
Anyway it is this: Do not compete or compare yourself or your circumstances to anyone else's.
This is why: The "happiness quotient" of any given situation is relative to someone else's situation. So if you don't contemplate how happy someone else is in their situation, you'll be none the wiser as to how happy you should be.
For example, take being stuck in a traffic jam, of which there are two lanes, and suddenly the other lane starts moving forward. Does this make you more peeved than when the other lane was stationary? Probably, as we're only human. But your situation hasn't changed, but the H.Q (my acronym for Happiness Quotient) has gone down relative to the other persons, since they are happier since they are moving. But if your situation hasn't changed, logically there's no reason to be unhappy. So stop it by not comparing your situations!
