The Degree of Happiness- What is happiness??

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The Degree of Happiness by Bertrand Russell is talking about two sort of happiness. He is suggesting that the degree of happiness is to say one sort is open to any human being and the other only to those who can read or write. The level of happiness between this two groups are different from what Betrand is trying to convey.

Being happy doesn't care our status or anything matters,
because it only shows who we are, as a human being

In this article, he said he has seen how a person who knew nothing about reading or have any idea on how to write could reach the high level of happiness in his life. He tries to tell that happiness is not something could depend on intellects or something about fashions, fads and so on. But it depends on how the person could manage to face any obstacles in their life and turn it into their very own private happiness when they could achieve it. That is how his perception on people who living their life happily in everything they do. But, what about the so-called educated people? Do they feel happy?

Happiness is abstract

He convinced us that the superior people like himself can also feels happy, but what kind of happy they feels instead of being happy on a simple thing. He says that there is also certain feelings of happiness can happen to each one of them. Not all well-educated people feels happy. But, he suggested that the feeling of happiness among this socialites is far much bigger. Nevertheless, he also stated that men in sciences is far more happier than artist, because art depends on emotion while science is always finding a solution. This prove that he is being bias towards the person who is more to art person.

For this article, well mostly I could not really agree with Bertrand Russell. What does the significance by distinguish the happiness in these two group of people. That will bring us back to the real definition of happiness? What is happiness actually? Does it something we consume everyday? Or the feelings we feel? So, happiness is an abstract feelings. Everyone can feel this emotion. The taste of being happy. By differentiate it apart does not make any difference at all. Everyone can feel the same, no matter what they are, who are they. We as a human being share the same feelings. That is why, happiness is abstract. It doesn't matter a small or a big thing, if we feel happy, then that's it. Happiness is not something we can find easily, it is something that we can achieve from our own self.

To be honest with this article, I would define happiness is when every smallest thing that happens to delight us is happiness. Happiness in this context cannot be sort into two groups because, the non-elite people can feel the same feelings of happiness the same with elite people and vice versa. Happiness is ubiquitous. We can feel them everywhere, anywhere or anything that we find can make us happy.

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