What makes you happy ?
At an outer level ? At an inner level ?
Once you have achieved the basics required for human existence - food, clothing, shelter - how do you determine the discretionary components of your life that will make you happy/content/satisfied ? How much love do you need ? How much money ? Spirituality ? Good health ? Sense of social belonging and being able to connect ? What about giving and receiving ? Does a law of diminishing returns also apply to happiness - beyond which one cannot get any happier ?
Perhaps the irony of happiness is that sometimes you need to experience anxiety in order to appreciate the former. Just like you need to experience winter to enjoy summer, or darkness to appreciate light ? And does our definition of 'happiness' change as we get older, or are there a common set of denominators that stay with us throughout our lives ?
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