{"id":78,"date":"2011-11-21T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/?p=78"},"modified":"2011-11-21T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T21:37:18","slug":"what-creates-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/2011\/11\/21\/what-creates-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"What creates Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dorfammirgharavi\/2011\/11\/14\/money-power-or-recognition\/\">Dorfam Mirgharavi\u2019s post<\/a> about how if she had to choose between money, power or recognition she would choose a combination of all three but most importantly she would concentrate on being happy.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliveringhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/happyball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"il_fi\" class=\" \" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deliveringhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/happyball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: DeliveringHappiness.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wanting happiness is universal but a very broad topic. Before telling you what I would pick to create happiness, I&#8217;ll go over the other choices.<\/p>\n<p>Recognition just shows that people only would do things if other people knew about it. This is extremely unethical and selfish thus not promoting happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Money is fun but what&#8217;s money worth if you can&#8217;t share it with others? Sure being able to buy your kid a ferrari for his birthday would be amazing but this wouldn&#8217;t make him love you more. He would end up being spoiled and would only look at you with $$ in his eyes. You would be alone and that doesn&#8217;t sound like happiness to me.<\/p>\n<p>I would choose power. One who has power can make a difference. I would use this power to look over people who I care for and thus they would show reciprocal treatment towards me. This creates a bond and a system of caring and thus creates happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading\u00a0Dorfam Mirgharavi\u2019s post about how if she had to choose between money, power or recognition she would choose a combination of all three but most importantly she would concentrate on being happy. Wanting happiness is universal but a very broad topic. Before telling you what I would pick to create happiness, I&#8217;ll go over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlively\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}