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Why is happiness put on a pedestal by society?

they say happy is the BEST thing a person can be, what is wrong with being sad, mad, indifferent, etc? why is happiness better than those other feelings according to society? the majority of people like being happy rather than sad? not true. i was conditioned to believe happiness is to be the most enjoyed emotion. i grew up being told that i should do what makes me happy all the time and strive to be happy. some people are masochists and they enjoy pain or sadness more than happiness.

Public Comments

1. Due to the fact that happiness is the feeling that gives people the most pleasure {besides sex}. The majority of people don't like the feeling of being sad..so happy is placed above it. That's why I said the majority. If you did a nation wide survey asking what emotion people enjoy most happiness or sadness, most of them would say happiness. Hence majority.
2. Because it's just better for your health, both emotionally and physically. Being sad, mad and indifferent put stressors on your mental health, which after a while may cause actual physical health problems. Happiness and contentment do the opposite, they improve your mental and physical health.
3. The others are steps to happiness, obstructions that can be removed to experience happiness. We can only love when we are happy and loving increases happiness for yourself and those you give your gifts to.
4. It is suppose to be the highest state of being. Highest being positive. Many people confuse it with emotion and it isn't. It is an attitude. You can be happy in the most miserable circumstances. This is also true of the others you cited. They are the result of how you look at the circumstances you find yourself in. Love, anger, fear are emotions. These RESULT from the circumstances you find yourself in.
5. It is not considered morally better, at least by most people. It occupies that pedestal because it is just what most people want to be.
6. It's not just society, it's the nature of things, it's how it works, it is evolution; everyone desires to prosper, grow, etc. and everyone does, some faster than others... Good luck!
7. It's only way you can get through life