No matter what may be one’s nationality, sex, age philosophy, or religion, everyone wishes or to remain happy. Hence, definitions of Happiness are interesting. One of the definition is ‘The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts’.
This definition places happiness where it belongs – within and without. The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue; It should not be dependent on things, but be a part of personality. So far as it is possible – it is not always possible – happiness should be like virtue. It should be kept on lost, not by exterior circumstances but ay and inner standard of life. There are people who carry their happiness as a foolish woman carries a purse of money in her hand while walking on a crowded thoroughfare. The first man who is quick with fingers, nimble with feet, and untrammelled by conscience can and will take the purse away and disappear with it. He will have separated the woman and her money. Now if one’s happiness is like that, and exterior thing, dependent on an enemy’s, on any one of a thousand accidents to which we are all exposed – the happiness can be lost.
In fact, money is not the chief factor of happiness. If it were, then everybody who had money would be happy and everyone without it would be unhappy; but there are so many wealthy people who are unhappy and so many poor people who are cheerful, that money, however important or desirable, is not the determining cause. Now health, we know, no one realizes what a blessing health is until one has lost it; the people without it think they would it be perfectly happy if they were well; but it is not so. There are healthy people who are not happy and there are invalid whose face, eyes and conversation reveal and inner source of happiness that enables them to triumph over bodily ills.
If the happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, then the mind is more important than either of these tremendous blessings, wealth and health.
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