Happiness “lapse rate”

Happiness "lapse rate           There's a story, tell a pursuer is the King is hiding and separated from people, hid in the mountains for two days and two nights, had eaten nothing. Running a cutting firewood an old man, and gave him a meal made with dried corn and cabbage dumpling. 32-port of the King ate, and think this is the most delicious thing in the world. So he asked the old man what it called the food, the old man called "hunger". King later returned to the Palace, she immediately ordered a meal room as he described to him "hunger", but how to do it could have turned out to taste. To this end, he sent people to find ways to come up with the "hunger" of the old man.

  Happiness "lapse rate"
But when the old man gave him a basket of "hunger", he still could not find the original feel. What is happiness? is a feeling. But I feel it is flexible, the same person on the same thing, in a different time, a different place, a different environment, is a completely different experience.

Yesterday was a kind of feeling, today is a start is a kind of feeling, is a feeling in the future. A very hungry people come to the dinner table, eating the first feeling of steamed bread and eat a second bread be a very different place. Sent first steamed to the mouth, are very sweet, very satisfied. When the second bread to eat, and this feeling has been significantly cut.

When eating steamed bun of third and fourth, but got sick sense of pole, eating not eat it doesn't matter. A walk in the desert, if you can get a glass of water, so that it could not have been happier. And when he went out of the desert, came to the springs, drink the first Cup is very sweet, have the second Cup is cool, have the third Cup is full.

Happiness "lapse rate"

If you want him to have the fourth Cup, when the fifth Cup, he is no longer happy, but also as a burden. This is called "happy lapse rate", or "diminishing marginal benefit". As the pursuit of happiness, as the creation, with the hope to, as needed. Happiness like a hurried traveler, where will not stay for long. Struggle, will succeed; pay, will be met. No pursuit and creation of new, there will be no new joy and happiness. 19th century Denmark philosopher Kierkegaard had a famous saying: "every thing very easily when only a human needs--needs difficult. "The difficulty is a touchstone, difficulties are a text book. Calm sea will never be able to bring up an experienced sailor.
Of past happiness, because over the past difficult future happiness, are also behind future difficulties. For happiness, we can go to the "find difficulties". Liaoning television station organized a "family living experience" programs, all members of the two families at a time, without any money, to a strange city to find a way of survival. The results, almost all of some pain, but all are feeling well. Difficulty, we know the money is not easy; difficulty, we know the human love how warm it is. Find difficult is to find new goals. Think past what they do not want, do what they do not do in the past. In this way, we can keep forging ahead, from a piece in the new world, to be happy, be happy.
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