Can we love happiness? Or do we then risk more sadness?

by Mamamia Team June 29, 2015

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To pose the question of whether we can love happiness in today’s world feels a bit like asking whether the Pope is Catholic. Most of us believe we not only can love happiness, but that we should!

Unfortunately, it is this very love of happiness that is leading many of us to experience more sadness.

Why, I hear you ask? Well let me start with an example.

Imagine you have a goal and it is to become smarter. You decide to enrol in an science degree and major in astrophysics (being an astrophysicist is clearly going to make you smarter), you spend every spare minute playing Sudoku and purchase the latest “get smart quick” brainpower gimmick. (Post continues after gallery.)