Why are we trying to be happy????????

Question

Why are we trying to be happy????????

Answer 1

Nobody is trying to be happy. We are born happy in pure love and forget as we are subjected to the belief systems of society. Happiness is a perception as is everything.

Answer 2

Because it feels better than being unhappy.

We are unhappy because of our perception of things.It all has to do with our up bringing and issues people place on us. Hope this helps Cheers !!

Answer 3

".....Everything is at once so simple and so complicated! It's simple because all it takes is a change of attitude: I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.

    And it's complicated: Why am I not looking for happiness when everyone else has taught me that happiness is the only goal worth pursuing? Why am I going to risk taking a path that no one else is taking?

    After all, what is happiness?

    Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and has never brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefireld; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony....

    I spent a lot of my life looking for happiness; now what I want is joy. Joy is like s*x-it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be content, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap.

    When I'm with a group of people and I want to provoke them by asking that most important of questions—Are you happy?—they all replay: "Yes I am."

    Then I ask: "But don't you want more? Don't you want to keep on growing?" And they all reply: "Of course."

    Then I say: "So you're not happy." And they change the subject."  

                                                                                                                                

Paulo Coelho

The Witch of Portobello

Answer 4

Who is trying to be happy in this world ??

What is happiness ?

May be,you can say that  you are trying to be  happy if,  you are living your life , in the way your heart says. But is that the way we do ??

Never. We all do the things in the way the society does. We live our life, with the examples set by generations. We never try to listen what our heart wants. Because we are afraid to.

The one who wanted to be an artist, takes a degree in political science, because society said him degree was important. Then he finds a job as bank clerk which is nowhere related to art or politics. Obviously, he was trying for something , but he was trying to be happy ?? No, if it was the case, he must had gone for the profession he liked.

This is the case everywhere, everyone is struggling... But no one happy ... Because no one is really trying to be happy.

All are simply struggling for something, which they know that will not make them happy, and still thinks they are in search of happiness !