Writing on happiness

When people write on what happiness is, usually they don’t actually write about what happiness is but where it comes from. The reason they do this is because anyone who feels emotions knows what happiness is. Describing happiness requires a poet, not a philosopher or a mental health clinician.

Nevertheless, it is very useful to describe happiness by its source. For this reason, I am using this post to summarize the different facets of happiness and where I believe true happiness comes from. When I've made a post on a particular facet or source, I will make the corresponding bullet point a link that will take you directly to the appropriate post.

• Happiness is the sensation of being created
• Happiness is having dignity
• Happiness is knowing you’re a person of worth
• Happiness is having a purpose
• Happiness is in positive thinking
• Happiness is belonging to something greater than yourself
• Happiness is seeing your life as not your own
• Happiness is being in a story
• Happiness is more than material wealth
• Happiness is hope
• Happiness is putting people over things
• Happiness is face-to-face conversation