Happiness

Today in class we started watching a new documentary on the study of happiness and what it truly takes for an individual to be "happy". What I thought was very interesting was that the more money one earns, does not necessarily make the individual more happy. Once one earns enough money to pay for living expenses, the persons average happiness does not vary much no matter how much more wealth they happen to acquire. In fact some of the wealthiest people are less happy than people who have a substantially less amount of money. This is because there are two kinds of life goals. There are interior personal goals, as in building upon yourself and then exterior goals such as social status and money. Many who only work for these exterior goals, may have a lot of money but then never build on themselves, so in turn end up not as happy. The happiest people are the ones who have a job doing what they love everyday, not necessarily one that makes a lot of money but one that fulfills their true life aspirations.