{"id":172,"date":"2022-06-15T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/?p=172"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:02:53","slug":"happiness-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/15\/happiness-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness compared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When everything around you is pitch black, even a dim dynamo light was enough to guide the bicycle. In today&#8217;s world of focused high intensity neon lights, even the most luminous headlight is insufficient for the vehicle.<br>Similarly, when a person&#8217;s resources are limited, he finds joy in small things. As the commodity grows in value, so does his standard of satisfaction.<br>However, it is incorrect to assume that the poor or someone far below your level of success is deeply unhappy and living a miserable life. Nobody can escape from happiness. It transforms from one form to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadness arises from comparison. As Montesquieu said this 300 years ago,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIf you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When everything around you is pitch black, even a dim dynamo light was enough to guide the bicycle. In today&#8217;s world of focused high intensity neon&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[56,18,23],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-happiness","tag-lifestyle","tag-pleasure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beenecheela.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}