I feel fine now. I want to write about something funny I am interested this week.
This is my discovery about happiness I found yesterday.
Firstly, there is a gradation in happiness. While the antonym of happiness is unhappiness, it doesn't necessarily mean that we are unhappy if we are not happy. There are middle points between happiness and unhappiness. Of course, it is hard for human to explain accurately about these many middle points. To solve this problem, human invented the concept of number and number line. We can put "usual" as 0, " happy" as a natural number, and "unhappy" as a negative number. Human came to go into these differences with more objective points of view.
As you know, there are a number of standards of happiness. There are classified into two kinds: material standards or mental standards. The representative former elements include physical health and money. The more we have, the more points are added to the number line. The representative later things include mental health, self-realization, and relationships. Strictly speaking, relationships has both material and mental elements. Some people say that the number of friends we have matter while the depth of each relationships matter. Like this component, some elements need more than one number line to measure. We can get together these number line using a chart like pentagon.
We can set any number to aim. We call this "ideal". We can also put our dots of current situation. To do this, we can know how far the gap between the ideal dots and present dots is. We can visualize the difference. It is one of the way to consider the tasks to achieve.
Most of the people will put their current dots in near 0, I think. I guess they are not so happy to put the dots to 100 or 1000, but not so unhappy to put the dots to -100 or -10000. And, most of them can raise their dots by making more efforts. The efforts include the way like studying or working harder or finding something good and close their foot. These are easy way to get happiness. However, when it comes to the people in minus number, thing become different. The minus number means that people in the condition feel some shortage. Some of them are too poor to buy three meals per day, while others are in need of love or dream. If some other number line are good enough for them, they often help looking at the negative number and feeling the lack. What's more, other people can't understand whether someone is happy or not because they don't know his or her ideal.
Often today's school system fix these standards to certain numbers. Some parents and teachers think that it is good for their children to get high number in certain number line such as income, reputation, talent and so on unless they know the children's true ideal. In addition, at least Japanese students, have few opportunity to consider their standards. How many chances they have to know that high number doesn't always mean happiness? By contrary, if they are free from thought of their parents and teachers and have a certain ideal(of course we can change ideal anytime in our life), they will be able to have a good life.
Today's song: (2) オーバー！ / いよわ feat.初音ミク・歌愛ユキ（OVER! / Iyowa feat. Hatsune Miku & Yuki Kaai） - YouTube
I hear this song in my head when I'm so fine that I can remember my courage and energy to challenge my dream. It encourages me a lot. I want to make more time to listen to this song to cheer me up. Then I will be fine if something terrible happened.
See you and have a nice weekend!!