Happiness and Success are two things that all of us want to have in our lives. I personally believe there are two types of happiness, feeling of happiness when you are on the path of achieving your goal and second when you are at the peak of success or when you achieved your goal.
My question to you guys is, what do you think is happier? and why?
Do you think the journey towards achieving the goal is happier than being successful itself? Or do you think its success which gives you happiness?
Journey vs Goal, discuss.U_U
PS-Keep in my mind that the journey towards achieving a goal doesn't mean that your end result is being successful.
Journeys and goals are a bit more discussion than is necessary to go through.
If you feel as though there is something you should do, then you will be unhappy when you fail to do it (or to make progress towards the goal).
What people often confuse is the distinction between happiness and pleasure. Eating icecream is pleasurable - but eating icecream is not, itself, happiness. Many people are unhappy because they feel unfulfilled - yet seek pleasure to blunt the sensation of being unfulfilled (this is very true, especially in our videogame-dense world).
That isn't to say that pleasure is bad - but that achieving happiness/fulfillment is not necessarily going to include pleasure-seeking.
In many cases, pleasurable activities distract us from the productive activities that will give us a genuine sense of fulfilling objectives. Building a model and putting it on display is infinitely more gratifying than hours of shoot-em-ups on videogames. Cleaning the house so that you can entertain company without worry is also fulfilling for many people - but (especially in my case), it gets shirked for more hollow distractions (such as arguing with people on internet forums).
There is something to be said for being content/fulfilled with what you have - but many people feel as though they should be doing more or have more than they do. If they fail to fulfill what they feel they should be doing - then they will be unhappy no matter how content they attempt to make themselves.
Even if their goals are more ambitious than they can ever complete in a lifetime - they will still be unhappy having failed to work toward that objective.
Of course - objectives and views change priorities over time, so it isn't as if you should just fixate on one goal. But sometimes being content with what you have also includes being content with the desires/goals you have.
