Blog post-happiness

A few days back we were talking about the measurement of happiness, and it got me thinking whether or not it is possible to measure. In the film, they had statistics saying that many people who live in poverty are just as happy or even more happy than wealthy people, and other stats like it. The problem I see with this, is that happiness is something different to everyone. The people in developing, poverty stricken areas who are "more happy" could see being happy much differently than a wealthy person. If the person who is living in poverty lived in the wealthy persons shoes for a bit, I believe that their idea of what happiness is would somewhat change, and vise versa. Then I realized it might be possible to measure happiness scientifically, because happiness is just the feeling of the release of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine in ones brain. If someone could figure out a way to track the amount of positive neurotransmitters released on a daily basis and set a value that determines happiness, then it could be done.  Until someone does that, I don't think you can label how happy someone is compared to someone else, because of their different ideas of what happiness is to them.