Happiness is just a concept in a person's head, based on the idea of certain conditions necessary for its acquisition.
One's own existence is not taken into account by a person, because the concept of happiness, from the point of view of a person, is the absolute opposite of just existence.
Why do I often think about happiness. I often think about happiness, not because I'm trying to find it. For me, there is no such thing. I am much more interested in studying the motives of why people keep the concept of happiness in their heads. In fact, as I see it, it’s just easier for people to keep such a concept in their heads, although such a person is unlikely to be able to clearly answer what he means by this very word - happiness.
Here I wrote about Selfishness
After all, this word is nothing more than an idea for your own peace of mind. After all, if a person were inwardly calm, then he would not seek salvation in any concept, which the concept of happiness serves for him. There is no other key to understanding the causes of one's condition, except for reality itself, because this is what reflects the state of things. But a person imagines happiness as something distant - what is in his head, requires certain conditions for its occurrence.
Although a person already exists as he is, and it would be rather foolish to deny it. It is clear that each person needs some necessary minimum of comfort. But when the acquisition of the attributes of comfort turns into the goal and meaning of existence, then this is the way to nowhere - a person will never be satisfied, because the desire itself serves as a way to escape from the internal problem, but not to stay in the achieved attributes as such.
The person himself needs to understand that he exists regardless of whether he has what he considers happiness or not. Therefore, in understanding happiness, it is necessary to understand the reasons why a person keeps this concept in his head. AT the philistine level, such a concept serves as a kind of illusion of relief, as it allows you to close your eyes to the cause-and-effect relationships between what a person himself produces as his ideas and his own situation.
Happiness, as a representation, is already meaningless just because it makes no sense to build its concept in isolation from reality. But a person, cultivating the idea of happiness, rushes between the past and the future, never being in the present moment. Although life itself is the present moment, it is not what was or could be in potential. One way or another, the future is a concept, but not what it is. If a person needs to assess his current situation, then it cannot be divorced from the present moment, because the person himself exists only in the present moment.
What makes a person unhappy
In fact, the very idea of happiness as a concept makes a person unhappy, because it prompts a person to constantly refer to some comparison of his situation with some vague idea that there are any attributes that make up his imagined happiness. . The most annoying thing is that the idea of happiness is based on its separation from reality itself, in which a person already exists, regardless of how a person relates to this reality.
The idea of happiness always requires some kind of correspondence to certain attributes, although if we talk about happiness as a feeling, then it can be present without the necessary, as it seems to a person, conditions. Often, it may seem that these conditions are necessary to achieve happiness, but when they are achieved, a person cannot help but feel happy, because he only thought that these conditions were necessary for happiness.