What is Happiness（美文）閱讀

What is Happiness（美文）閱讀

幸福，是偎依在媽媽溫暖懷抱里的溫馨；幸福，是依靠在戀人寬闊肩膀上的甜蜜；幸福，是撫摸兒女細嫩皮膚的慈愛；幸福，是注視父母滄桑面龐的敬意。幸福是什么？幸福是一個謎，你讓一千個人來回答，就會有一千種答案。有人說過：“真正的幸福是不能描寫的，它只能體會，體會越深就越難以描寫，因為真正的幸福不是一些事實的匯集，而是一種狀態的持續。”幸福不是給別人看的，與別人怎樣說無關，重要的是自己心中充滿快樂的陽光，也就是說，幸福掌握在自己手中，而不是在別人眼中幸福是一種感覺，這種感覺應該是愉快的，使人心情舒暢，甜蜜快樂的。

It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.

Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.