“Assuming what makes us Happy”

Day after day, psychologists are coming up with new and improved ways to check if we are happy, and to see if we are.  An article published by Jamie Hale claims that people rarely know what it is that makes them happy.  External events don’t cause happiness.  Positive external events in large numbers do.  Gives people an overall feeling of happiness.  This is difficult to argue because happiness is all relative.  Who’s to say that material possessions and events don’t make us happy?  There is no formula for happiness and if you force the feeling, it’s likely to have the opposite effect.  Happiness must come naturally in order for it to truly be achieved.

Works Cited

Hale, Jaime. “What Makes Us Happy?” Psych Central. Psych Central, n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2015.