This weeks Newsweek on the over-rating of Happiness!
I haven’t read the entire article, yet, but I like it already! This striving to be “happy” at all costs has impoverished us, I think. We also confuse “happiness” with “joy.” One can be joyful even in the worst of situations. Happiness, on the other hand, often seems nothing more than decent reception of external stimuli – or at least happiness seems to be something not so determined by internal stuff, but by externals.