The degree of happiness

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." 

Bertrand Russell

The key of happiness. What do you think, if I talk about happiness? What is happiness? Can you describe what is happiness all about? But, as me, happiness is such as the comfort feeling of enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity and gaiety that you might feel.

Basically, happiness is not refers to  the prosperity and popularity. As you can see the rich and upper  class  people who live with luxury and extraordinary environment sometime might not feel the happiness feeling like the lower class people. In turn,  we as a human being should cherish the degree of happiness that are already gifted by the God. 

The degree of happiness is an  exhilarating excerpt written by Bertrand Arthur William Russell who was a British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate, whose emphasis on logical analysis influenced the course of 20th-century thinking. This excerpt come  from his book that is " The Conquest of Happiness".

In this excerpt, basically it explain to the reader that the happiness of someone is totally different from someone else. For instances, Bertrand  Russell told the reader that when he was a boy, he knew a man bursting with happiness whose business was digging wells.  Besides that, he was of enormous heights and of incredible muscles , but he could neither read or write, and when in the year 1885 he got a vote for parliament. During that time, he learnt for the first time that such an institution existed. His happiness did not depend upon on intellectual sources, it was not based upon belief in natural law, or any of the fad, fashion and creeds which intellectuals consider necessary to their enjoyment of life. I think he might be feel more happiness with his old life compared to the new one. 

Furthermore, Bertrand Russell told the readers that the farmers also have their own happiness. As we know that, the farmers will spend a lot of theirs effort in order to plant the fruits and vegetables. Besides that, they have to take care of their plant like put some fertilizers, watering with enough water, supply the plants with the ample of sunlight and give some affection in order to ensure this plants to growth  and alive kicking well. After a few months, this effort and struggle will achieve the triumphs  since the farmers can pick all  the yields from their plantation.  As you can see, in this picture show to us that,  the farmer kiss his plant with the big smiling face. In turn, it portray to us that,  the degree of his happiness after he attain the great victory in his life as well as. 

One more thing, I noticed that, this except act as a stepping's stone to expose to the readers that,  artists and literary men consider it necessary to be unhappy in their life such as marriage, but men of science quite frequently remain capable of old-fashionable domestic bliss. This is due to the scientists have an activity which utilizes his abilities to the full and attain results which appear and seem more important not just to himself but to the general public or citizens even though the public cannot understand their work. But, when the public cannot understand a picture or a poem, they conclude that it is a bad picture or a poem. When the public cannot understand the theory of relatively they will conclude that their education has been insufficient.  For instances, Albert Einstein who is the well known scientists live happily and with the great of joy while the best painters starve in the gutter. In turn,  these circumstances prove that artists are less happy than men in science.

All in all, this except, totally acts as yardstick to change the way how we though about the degree of happiness in our life and bear in mind that everyone in this world will have their own way in order to pursuit with their own happiness. The happiness is the subjective feeling that we need in order to get survive in this world.