Key to Happiness! Or?
What is it to live a meaningful life? Achieving something great? Earning a salary of six figures? Running your own successful business? Doing something worthwhile for society? All these might be the right answers, but what is it that runs behind the scenes? Happiness? Would it be considered worthy if you lead a happy life? The human species have always been in search of something that makes them happy. It is a biological reward system tuned in to the system that gives us pleasure. Dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins are termed to be happy hormones. Whatever we end up doing, ultimately is to have a burst of these hormones in our system. The body doesn't really comprehend achievements, wealth, fame, love, etc. It only rewards us with a sudden rush of hormones that makes us feel good. After a while, the promotion you got at your job, the trophy you won at a sports event, marrying the love of your life, just don't end up in eternal happiness. Happiness is always a momentary