How do you measure happiness?

Few days back while I was awake at night, I looked up in my phone and saw a message that one of my senior died due to cardiac arrest. Reading this, I felt so low and was tensing over what if this happens to me. I had a hard time sleeping that night. Probably I woke up 7–8 times that night. Next day, I sent a very emotional message to a few of my friends so that they can help my family if something happens to me. Sounds scary, right?

Well, we can’t control death. It would come for everyone and no one know when’s the time. What if I die at this moment? Everyone wishes for a happy life and it has to be a long one so that we can cherish over good time at our old age. But how do we measure happiness? What defines happiness? These are very significant questions we often skip over.

As usual this is not academic writing neither a guideline to happy life. It’s a person’s thought on how happiness should be measured.

In this modern era, if you have a good job, family, kids, home, car and a handsome savings, you will be called successful. Does being successful really ensure happiness? If not, then what does? Let me give my two cents.

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