Response: The Science of Happiness

Having read "The Science of Happiness" by Mike Rudin, there are many interesting things which I consider to be truth in that article.

Although I believe is quite difficult to measure happines, I agree with Prof. Ed Diener (University of Illinois) when he says, that happines leads to a better life. I know by my own experience that there are strong connections between the feeling of happiness and how much healthy a person may be. At the same time as much happy you feel in life, more strong you will be to face problems and hard work.

I also agree with what Prof. Daniel Kahneman (University of Princeston) argues: money cannot make people happier. Once peolpe have reach a good standar of living, there is a tendency to seek for more since comparision with other peolpe is inevitable.. The act of comparing ourselves with others gennerally leads to the realization of what we still haven't achieve, and threfore, we start to feel unhappy. There's always be somebody richer and in a better social status than us. And as it is suggested in the article, the best thing to do is to choose objectively who we compare with and about what.

I have no doubt that "The Happy Formula" to which the article makes reference to, includes a set of ingredients that are vital to it and that there is no just one key to ahppiness. As the article suggest, family and friends are extremely important because not to be alone is a paramount aspect for every human being. We all need company and to feel supported.

As important as those ingredients is the belief in something bigger than us no matter which your religion may be. That gives sense to human life and helps us to answer to many existencial questions that may be difficult to responde.

The article also remarks the importance of having goals that you find enjoyable and the possitive influence that working on them may have in our search for happiness. It is avery real thought for me that our lives should develop for something. We need to live and not just to exist. We need to get involved, to be connected and to have values in life as well as we need to have plans and find the way to achieve them.

With a mixture of all of these, is precisely how happiness can be constructed.