So many people are happier than I will ever be.
I believe this one may be entirely dependent on who we're analyzing or "over-analyzing". With people you know real well it's hard to say how happy they really are but easy to weigh things out.
Like a T-chart. Listing all the things you know for sure make the other person seem happy.
Nicer Car.
Easier Job.
Better house.
Better relationships.
More friends.
Etc...
But with Depression, we as beholders of the "happy people" are sort of setting ourselves up for hurt. We'll find everything they have that we do not and then hate ourselves for it.
And at the same time it may be entirely True or just one big Charade. Who knows? Is this person behaving speciously? Or is this person legitimately and factually happy?
I try to just avoid it but I can't help but notice it sometimes. Especially if it's the Brick Manor on the same road as the Cheap Motel and Rickety Apartment Complex, you know?
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The concept of happiness is a very difficult one. I can say that I am happy with my life and everything about my life. Yet I suffer with bipolar disorder2 and I am not rich. But happiness has little to do with material possession or a perfect physical or mental health.
Happiness is a state of mind that can be achieved no matter what. That is what Buddhism and mindfulness are all about: to find happiness no matter what.
Happiness is to be in touch with one's spirit, to understand life and what is important about life and that is not money or material possessions. Can people be happy these days? I suspect that less and less people find happiness today because we have lost contact with our spirit and the spirit of Mother Nature. We are becoming robots as we transform our life into a mechanical and material experience rather than a natural spiritual one.
Yes we have technology but we are so stupid.