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Could you please expand on the last paragraph? I think about happiness a lot lately, and it seems like you have some intetesting thoughts.

• AndrewKemendo 10y ago
  There is an unending amount that has been written about measuring happens and finding happiness etc... All of it seems to boil down to what I would consider "hedonism with a mortgage." The focus is on "lasting happiness" with relationships and experiences being there paramount, and de-emphasizes material accumulation and intoxication. Nothing ever asks the question "why be happy anyway?" Seems like it's as bad of a goal as any, but it's how our biological systems create action.
  • oldmanjay 10y ago
    Teenagers ask banal but seemingly profound questions like this all the time. The answer is "because it feels better than not being happy." You can really overthink this stuff pretty easily
    • AndrewKemendo 10y ago
      That answer isn't compete though and assumes too much. It's a cynical answer under a cloak of "experience." Might as well just say, because god wants us to be happy.
  • Fraterkes 10y ago
    I always defined "being happy" as being satisfied. And being satisfied can be defined as "being the way you want to be". So in that sense I think happiness IS a kind of ultimate goal. I may have stretched the definition of happiness a little, though.