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Public Message of Happiness

What is Happiness What are we doing? What am I doing? All of us wake up in this world each day and with out noticing it, we dive deep into thought processes that help us to plan our morning, our afternoon, and our evenings around our biological human needs like how we are going to cloth ourselves, feed ourselves, and harness the resources required to transport ourselves to places we need or want to be. Although the process which takes place between thinking of what we need or want and how we will be able to attain that of which we need or want may be acquired through divergent means and paths through which we experience negative and positive emotion. The goal of the human decisions process is to weigh outcomes and decide on the action, which will deliver the most efficient satisfaction. Most of us wont naturally come to the conclusion that the human decision process is the vehicle that we use to strive for positive satisfaction. Happiness. Simply put, this is the pathway each of us use to reach positive emotional outputs. What does any of this mean? Why does this question matter! There seems to be an imbalance within todays wealth creation and how we feel about ourselves, what really makes us feel happy. If we look at consumerism today, with a wide objective view, we can easily see which countries are the largest consumers, deriving from the economy the largest financial sums. And yet it seems as though none of this financial prosperity is improving our happiness. The …

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