Happy

Something funny was in the papers today. Straits Times. They talk about a man who is claimed to be the happiest man in Singapore. Right. How do you measure happiness? Is there some kind of a scale machine that can gauge your level of happiness? Is there a special SI unit for happiness? This article is ****. I've observed this obsession has become stranger and stranger, weirder and less familiar. It has become irrecognizable. And not too far ago, on Yahoo news they rated Singapore people as one of the happpiest people on Earth, also citing the fact because it has good governance. I find that Yahoo article a bit political. I mean what it's trying to say is not about genuinely rating and researching about happiness but trying to talk about governments.

I don't deny that of course anybody is looking for happiness. But this happiness is not like some kind of an easy thing that you can measure and rate. There is a best sportsman award. A most- intelligent person award. A most- successful actor award. But most happiest? How do I prove i'm happier than you right now? By how wide my smile is?

Happiness is reliant on your expectations. Happiness depends on how positive and negative your thinking is. Happiness can be affected by your health. Your financial status. But none of these factors can give definite guarantee of pure never- ending happiness. Because there are other factors as well.

This brings me to another issue: Can you be happy forever?