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RE: Two Types of Happiness: Hedonistic and Eudaimonic Happiness
I have heard George Carlin do this so many times and it never gets old. He says it so well! If only folks would wake up. Yes happiness is good.And I truly enjoy ed your writing. I believe that happiness is cause from an internal 'happening' that is why we call it happiness. It is short lived and a reaction from something outside. On the other hand joy is internal longer lasting and from within. It is not dependent on an external trigger. It is dependent on you. Thanks for the article @krnel.
Exactly, happiness usually happens to us, as an internal response usually from an external stimulus. But it can be self-generated from inducing thoughts that provoke and summon emotional responses as well. I've talked about that in a post last year about happiness too. Forgot to add it in this one hehe. Happiness, joy, and all emotional states are internally felt, within. They all come from within, but are triggered either by self-induced feedback in consciousness (depending on us alone), or from an external source that motivates such a response. Positive and negative emotions are not meant to be everlasting. They all depend on us, and how we are conditioned or willfully choose to respond to things. We can choose to self-stimulate positive feedback to generate emotions, or be influenced by external stimulus, but it always involved us in either case. So I disagree with part of your assessment on joy. Thanks for the feedback as always :)