Infinite happiness forever

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Inifinite happiness forever

We currently have lockdown. Lockdown is a friendly word for curfews or exit restrictions. So far, this has only been known and known from dictatorships such as China or Belarus. So I'm now sitting in my condominium with large bank balances, have 300 rolls of toilet paper and enough boredom to think about this situation. Many of my fellow human beings react to such circumstances with either aggression or depression. Neither is for me because I see myself as the happiest Viennese in the city and one of the happiest people in the Republic of Austria. We have food, we have drinks and when you want to shower the water works. Just the fact that I can have a working toilet distinguishes me from a billion people who don't have one yet.

As I sit there I remember one of my many trips to Tunisia. I was brought into the desert in a desert car and we visited people who live in caves and were looking forward to our visit there. It was an experience that touches me deeply to this day when I remember it. The cave had 3 entrances. There was nothing there. Nothing at all. 3 broken mattresses were on the floor. A little boy had a chameleon in his hand and let us take pictures with it for a few dinars. There were only 4 seats, 2 simple tables and no electricity. No drinking water and not even a toilet. You have to fetch the water from the oasis and it takes your father two hours to walk there every day. It will take a while until he is back. There were 2 loaves of bread on the rickety wooden table. This was all of the family's meal for the day. When we got there they proudly showed us the chameleon. And the cave with the 3 entrances. What touched me deeply to this day was the fact that the grandmother of the family wanted to give me the two loaves of bread. EVERYTHING that this family had they wanted to give us guests to make us feel comfortable. Such a kind of hospitality, happiness, love and humanity can no longer be found in Europe these days. But what impressed me even more: The people there were happy. Not played - but happy from the bottom of your heart.

I took this experience as an opportunity to think about the topic of HAPPINESS. For those who just want a short formula, this is as follows:

Happiness = having + being + loving ... with the inner attitude to it!

Now we come to the individual points:

According to the UN basic conditions for happiness, having means the following:

1) At least 2,500 calories a day

2) a water consumption of 100 liters per day

3) at least 6 mÂ² living space

4) having a place to cook

5) to get six years of schooling

Do you meet these 5 conditions? Well, perfect - then you are a happy person in this world according to the UN basic conditions for happiness. If not: Try to work out these points or develop them together with other people. Talk to others about it - there are also nice and helpful people in this world who will help you.

In happiness there are always 2 components and their point of view: an objective and a subjective. If a millionaire is upset that kerosene is becoming more expensive again for private helicopters, he is subjectively unhappy. Objectively, however, according to the UN definition, it will probably meet the criteria for being happy.

So that would be having. You can always have more - but does that also make sense? And