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Yes, but it's personal based on your own version about happiness
Define happiness for yourself, and from your definition of happiness, try to see the structures of happiness. Next, ask for yourself just how much detail of the structures that make up happiness has been fulfilled, and finally you have found how much happiness have been obtained for your own.
This is subjective and different for everyone, but at least you can do on your own version for measuring the achievement of happiness and to find out how far for your happiness in the future has decreased
- By Bernard Seremonia
- Oct. 2, 2009
In the quantitative sense - doubtfully
You can, I suppose, invent your scale of happiness and measure your current feelings according to it, although such measurements would not have any objective value and even the subjective would no be great, given on how many uncertainties and variables the "happiness" (oh, yes - you will have to define it, too) depends.
Measurements of the "frequency of happiness" would be easier, although not much less vague - for this, you would have just to define happiness and to register, for a certain duration, the moments that correspond to your definition.
The only more or less objective measurement of happiness I can imagine is that of the level of certain neurotransmitters in your brain. Then again, the subjective feelings associated with the reuptake of the neurotransmitters, although remaining similar, will differ from person to person.
- By >A
- Oct. 2, 2009
