RE: Are You Happy?
February 21, 2014 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2014 at 9:49 am by Napoléon.)
(February 21, 2014 at 6:11 am)ElleBelle Wrote: I live in the first world and have many luxuries
I don't really think this 'living in the first world' has that much bearing on whether someone is happy or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index
Notice with this that a lot of first world countries feature quite low on this list (although yeah, the majority of 3rd world countries are at the bottom end).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'd rather be living in the third world, just saying sometimes having all these things we consider as luxuries doesn't necessarily equate to happiness. If anything it could be argued living in the first world is a lot more complicated and demanding in other ways which can lead to people being unhappy in a different kind of way. I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary a while ago saying that people in the bronze age were probably just as happy as we are now, despite the fact we have so much that is technologically advanced. The thing is, people simply get used to their surroundings and the technologies and it becomes ingrained into their day to day life, so much so that it's taken for granted. I think that's true for most people in the first world to be honest. But it doesn't, IMO have all that much bearing on their happiness.
