The Happiness Project

I read a book last year called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I really enjoyed it. If you are at all interested you can check out the authors website-http://www.gretchenrubin.com/. 

To bring this post back to happiness, I think it was very interesting how it is often defined. We tend to define happiness by how much money we have. But the truth is that money does not make everyone happy. Money does not last forever. But other skills and characteristics such as hard work and honesty do.

Do you think that success and happiness go hand in hand? Does one need to be successful to be happy? What is success? In the dictionary success is defined as: the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals. But everyone as different goals, so that means that everyone has different levels and variations of happiness. 

This all links back to the idea of normalcy: conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. There is no common type or way of being. Every individual has certain things that makes he or she fell. Is having purple hair normal? Is having a beard normal? These are questions that can't be answered. Because there is no normal. Or there a billion normals. Just like there is no standard recipe for happiness and there is no real recipe for success. There is simply a self definition, that can only be found through self discovery.