A pessimistic person will have a negative view on a daily basis, while this differs vastly from someone who practices optimism. If you set out to improve your daily life, chances are you'll start to become happier. As humans we don't count our blessing bestowed upon us, as we should, religious or not.
A pessimistic person will have a negative view on a daily basis, while this differs vastly from someone who practices optimism. If you set out to improve your daily life, chances are you'll start to become happier. As humans we don't count our blessing bestowed upon us, as we should, religious or not.
A pessimistic person will have a negative view on a daily basis, while this differs vastly from someone who practices optimism. If you set out to improve your daily life, chances are you'll start to become happier. As humans we don't count our blessing bestowed upon us, as we should, religious or not.
Citation: Parfitt, Matthew. Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader. Place of Publication Not Identified: Bedford Bks St Martin'S, 2015. Print.
Source: Quote (Page# or Paragraph #)
Responses
most studies have shown that peoples
overall level of happiness seems stubbornly impervious to change (325).
I feel that the basic level of our happiness is
associated with our personality and our view of the world. A pessimistic person will have a negative view on a daily basis, while this differs vastly from someone who practices optimism. Its hard to change your view on the world.
We suggest that while single major events
may be unlikely to have a lasting impact, smaller minor behaviors provide small boosts to well being that can lead to real changes in overall well being, especially if they are repeated with sufficient frequency over time: one cannot win the lottery every day, but one can exercise or attend religious services regularly, and these repeated behaviors may be enough to increase well being over time (326).
Its the minor daily activities that seems to
have more of an impact. If you think about doing something on a daily basis, you will be continuously exposed to it. I think it is true that over time these things will eventually add up, increasing your level of happiness. This all stems from your view of the world though, if you set out to improve your daily life, chances are youll start to become happier.
Worse still, of those investigations that have
demonstrated a lasting impact of major events on well being, most have been in negative domains (327).
If you think about the things that happen in
your life, what do you think of? Something negative right? This is because our brains associate more with our flaws or things that have a negative impact on our lives. As humans we don't count our blessing bestowed upon us, as we should, religious or not.
Why don't people adapt to religion and
exercise, behaviors the most people have been engaged in their entire life, as they do to most other things? (329).
If we were to actually engage ourselves in
routine activities such as exercise and religious events, it gives a positive twist on your life. Why don't do we, as humans, engage our lives in this as much as we do sports? Or even pop culture? Why aren't we worried about our own well being as much as we are with our team in the Super Bowl?
In contrast to the notion of an inescapable
hedonic treadmill, it is not pointless for people to seek to improve their well being. However, improvement may not come from major events such as winning the lottery (336).
Things such as a better sense of our well
being have a better impact rather than a major impact like winning the lottery. Albeit there can be improvement from something like winning the lottery, but doesn't that just make you a materialistic person?