What is happiness?

Happiness is a feeling and must be experienced. It can be described as the feeling when one is enjoying oneself.

What really is happiness and how do we experience it? Many people have the misconception that once one have the most material things, one is the happiest, and thus the go about slogging their guts out to obtain whatever items they think that can make them happy. Now let us find out how long this happiness can last them. Perhaps it satisfies them when they buy the item or items, or until it is out of fashion. At most, it can let them be happy until it has lost its use. This is considered as merely short-term happiness and not true happiness.

To me, I experience happiness knowing that I have the company of my family and friends, as I can be sure that in times of need, there is someone who can be my pillar of support, facing every setback that is thrown at me together. Such things cannot be bought or worked for, but can only be gained through years of true sincerity and friendship. If people have all the traits mentioned in this paragraph, they are the happiest and richest people in the world, even if they have very little assets.