2007-09-09 13:55:51 · 16 answers · asked by Chao 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because of the scope of what it takes for an individual to be happy.
For Charlie Brown it might be a warm puppy, for my wife it might be a box of chocolates and for my neighbor it might be winning the lottery.
It could be waking up to a beautiful sunrise, walking without pain after surgery or getting to meet a celebrity.
How can you define happiness when it has the traits of sight, smell, sound, touch and taste at the same time?
g-day!
2007-09-09 14:33:05 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Happiness is the emotional experience created by your love coming out of you. In every moment of joy and peace in your life you were creating love and expressing it. Feeling different qualities of happiness at different times is because there are millions of variations of the emotion of love that you can express. Sometimes happiness is a calm peace and at other times happiness is a euphoric celebration.
Your emotions are very real, however they can not be quantified with physical measurements. When we attempt to define something we want it to be “definite” and fixed.
It is more difficult to define emotions with words than to define color. Imagine being at the paint store and looking at swatches of paint. It is not easy explain the differences in shades of blue or green to another without a visual reference. With emotions we do not have a chart to point at. Each person experiences their own without a common reference chart.
One thing is common though. We all have emotions. We all know love. We all know happiness is some form.
More at http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/create_happiness.htm
2007-09-10 11:41:44 · answer #2 · answered by Gary 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because to define happiness, you need a certain ruler or gauge to measure it against. What special ruler or gauge do you think is available? Smiley faces? Caste in society? Or amount of billions in a bank perhaps? Yeah, these gauges are not at all reliable.
Let's see, try amount of children? Amount of wives? Amount of friends and relatives? Still no good, no?
Contentment perhaps? Still variable per person. Only the person himself knows his limits.
You see, it's hard to predict and judge the level of a human being. Much more hard to govern and measure them using the same rules. A pioneer will always emerge somehow and cause revolt. That's how evolution proceeds.
"A happy soul is happy because it knows it is doing what it came here to do."
2007-09-09 22:00:48 · answer #3 · answered by medea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're probably not old enough to remember the show, "Twilight Zone"....There was one story that will answer this for you....This guy wakes up but he thinks he's dreaming. He's in a small room, he's young, maybe 25 and in the room are two older people who I would guess to be in their 80's...
They are sitting watching old home movies of their children and their vacations and everything they did together in their lives. Sitting in two recliners, they were having the time of their lives...After many days the guy started going crazy because of the constant repetition of the movies while the older couple laughed and enjoyed them...
Finally he got the revelation that he had died. He asked the older people if it were so and they said yes...He asked them, "Where am I?" ... They said they were in Heaven, he said, "How can this be Heaven, it's driving me crazy!"... They then told him that what's Heaven for one person is hell for another...
This is why it's difficult to define!
2007-09-13 10:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Domino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness is subjective. Personally I believe that a person who is truly happy knows that they are. I am not referring to people who are not happy but choose to delude themselves into thinking that they are because they think that they must be happy to be a successful individual. I also think that there is an area between happy and unhappy I believe that a person can be content but not happy. Happiness is an emotional state which is very difficult to put within parameters, but it is very easy to know when we truly feel it. I hope this helps you, and yes I realize I got a little off topic, it happens to me a lot.
2007-09-11 00:21:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try "happiness" in the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language. Not so difficult.
2007-09-09 22:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Theron Q. Ramacharaka Panchadasi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because words are clumsy tools for explaining abstract concepts. Most nouns are defined by the actual physical object they represent. What does happiness represent? Just some notion in people's heads and everyone's notion might be and probably is different.
2007-09-09 21:28:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I've never had that problem.
Possibly, if people could define happiness then they could create happiness. By not defining happiness they avoid it.
It is possible that some people avoid happiness.
2007-09-09 21:08:25 · answer #8 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most definitions are not fun, and defining things might not really make you happy
2007-09-12 06:01:59 · answer #9 · answered by pingpong 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it means something different to different people. For me, happiness is a chocolate chip cookie :)
2007-09-09 21:04:08 · answer #10 · answered by jo.rogers72 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋