{"id":3394,"date":"2019-09-20T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/existentia.com.hr\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2019-09-20T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:13:19","slug":"what-is-happiness-antonio-siber-knows-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/existentia.com.hr\/en\/what-is-happiness-antonio-siber-knows-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Kahneman i Deaton [1] argue that the emotional well-being increases with the logarithm of income, but only up to an annual salary of about $ 75,000. After that, the feeling of satisfaction is satiated and it is not worth it to earn more and to suffer, because your emotional state will be more or less the same. <\/strong>Translated into Croatian, we would need a monthly salary of about thirty thousand kunas. Not bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve asked people today what\nthe happiness is. Most of them answered \u2013 health. The most original answer was\ngiven by my research assistant who explained to me that happiness is the state\nof the mind, most often poorly correlated with reality and mostly grounded in\nsome kind of illusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Croatian, there are two different meanings of the word \u201chappiness.\u201d (CRO \u201csre\u0107a\u201d). One is what English and American people would call \u201chappiness\u201d, and the other they would call \u201cluck\u201d or \u201cfortune\u201d \u2013 how we usually use this word, when we say , in literal translation to English \u201cluck games\u201d \u2013 (in English games of chance). This linguistic curiosity tells me that Croats consider happiness to be a matter of luck, like winning the lottery. It is not reached in any clear way, if you are lucky, then you might as well be happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can there be luck among\nunwealthy? Of course there can, otherwise religions would make no sense. This\nmeans, money is a good precondition for happiness, but certainly not necessary\none. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is happiness really? Happiness is the awareness that we are\nhappy, the awareness that we just exist, live. Happiness is a process and a path,\nnot a goal; it is a process, not the end result. It is happiness to drive home\nand realize that we are not driving home but that we are enjoying the first\nbloom of the year – happiness is the blossom of Japanese cherry. It’s lucky to\nbe (happy). What we enjoy means that we are in LIFE, that we exist, that we are\nhappy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In regards to Western criteria, one has to be a little silly for happiness. Fat Buddha who is laughing or holy Franjo who teaches birds. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness is not being on the road to happiness because there is no road, it is not something achieved after we\u2019ve done all needed for that. Happiness is like a dance, it is not walking to an ending. <\/strong>Dance has no goal, it is something we enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness is one of those eastern words more important than all\nof the words, for which no one knows what exactly they mean. And no one tries\nto define them because through defining they would lose the meaning which is\nnot reachable with other words. Chan. Tao. Happiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a happiness to feel every flicker of nature throughout the year, to be constantly in the soul of the world<\/strong> – such happiness has escaped Hamvas every year. To be with the saffron in the shade, a saffron which has preserved a  patch of snow, with apricot buds and cherry blossom, with June raspberries and currants and August blackberries. With quince. And the mussels in late November. With unpaved snow next to the mountain church, which rises at the top in late February and then melts inexorably. The sun calls for flowers again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: ANTONIO \u0160IBER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 [1] D. Kahneman and A.\nDeaton, High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional\nwell-being<\/em>, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2010), >> www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1011492107<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is happiness? Does it require wealth? Or little silliness, like in the case of the fat Buddha laughing? 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