In her latest post on Time Goes By, Ronni Bennett asks 'what is happiness'. As ever an interesting post, as are the comments. I was particularly happy (sorry!) with my own comment, which by chance drew on some other thoughts I am having about 'life', so I am reproducing them here.
I think too many people confuse pleasure with happiness. Pleasure has its place, but is transitory. Happiness is deeper. Paradoxically we achieve happiness by embracing our whole life experience, good and bad. Rejecting a part of our life, for whatever reason, devalues the whole, and therein lies UNhappiness.
