Happiness Happiness is a basic need of the human soul. Once we are provided with such physical necessities of food, water and shelter, we seek happiness. Most people seek happiness throughout their lives, yet many look in the wrong places, only to find despair. Some people are so unhappy, and so hopeless of ever being happy again, that they feel they would rather take their own lives than face living through another day. Many people, very likely most people, are not happy, but think they will be once they get more of what they want. More money, a more desirable mate, more friends, a bigger house, a college degree, a promotion on the job, or election to a political office. It's human nature to want more than what we've got, and it's often easy to demonstrate that what one has is so meager that anyone could understand why we are unhappy. The desire for more is programmed into us by evolution, as it was our ancestors who actually got more that were more successful at reproduction than those who settled for less. So all of this leaves only one thing when it comes being happy. Make a decision to be happy now and to change your thinking towards the things that contribute to happiness instead of deterring it. Choose your response to situations and live with a hope and appreciation to what is good, what is right, and what makes you happy. ^_^