The Meaning of Life 

that's nice :)

Nice thought

Priceless!

Tommy Applecore this is a really wonderful insight, thanks for sharing

Thank you kiss meinass, and thanks to all of you above for the kind comments and thumbs up.

Chase H. But what if life literally stops you from giving your life meaning? People have children to achieve meaning, but what if you can't afford children on your salary? People try to achieve their dreams to get meaning, but what if you never find your dream job? What if you're stuck in soul sucking jobs one after the other and feel like there is no hope? It's easy to say "make your own meaning." But what if the universe won't let you?

Chase H. B

Well put it.

Meaning, Its an delusion.

Chase H. idealistically

Does that make you a nihilist, or does it make you not a nihilist? Interesting

i think he's a point not all the way right though

Lol ! Nice One

It makes him cognitively dissonant.

It actually makes you an Absurdist.

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This is undoubtedly true!

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+Michael Pappano You aren't thinking very hard then. What are you improving yourself for? What's the reason why you are improving yourself? Is there some point or end goal to it? Or are you just improving for the sake of improving?

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+Cristián Camilo Orozco Hincapié Great video, best I've ever seen.

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Best human you can be and giving service to others

Brilliant comment Demian.

Thank you for your comment

Demian Haki Human's mind is amazing, we're capable of justifying anything to ourselves.

Demian Haki Very well said.

Demian Haki Suppose there was a machine that'd induce 'meaningful' brain states, such brain states that we have when we find something 'meaningful'. Would a person hooked up to this machine have a meaningful life?

This is realization.

That's what I thought

it's not too late switch to a scientific field and be part of a bigger flourish in aiding earth lives

+Erica Holly Grace go find it

+The Man how?

I think there is more to life than just enjoying it

^^ sarcasm?

I didn't intend to be sarcastic. I hope Matthew was, otherwise it's a shallow perspective, I think.

zollek what can be more important than enjoying life?

Hei A lot of things. Acquiring knowledge, providing a service to others, expanding your consciousness, to name a few examples. Enjoyment is just one aspect of living, I think.

+x BublizZ Bruh...

+x BublizZ this seems totally right

+x BublizZ You managed to expose the paradoxical way in which people try to explain that there actually is meaning in life in one sentence. The power behind your sentence is brilliantly put together. You made it seem so easy to refute the entire video. I am having a hard time describing how deep your words were.

+x BublizZ then we should all be philosophers! :D

+jacob massengale This isn't actually a good question at all, it's actually a very loaded question although to be fair it kind of seemed like a joke, but perhaps not to the the other guy that replied seriously. Phrasing it as a 'what if' implies that the 'meaning of life' is something we inherently can't know for certain. This video provided a compelling argument for why that wasn't true, so in order to ask such a loaded question it seems you should need to first prove why the video is wrong in saying we can determine what meaning is by breaking down common thoughts and feelings people have that they associate with 'a lack of meaning'. We defined the word 'meaning', no animal or any life form we've seen has done that before. It is nonsense to think that something without a consciousness (i.e. nature, evolution) could give us meaning, it is inherently disconnected from the idea of 'meaning'. The idea that 'life has no meaning' doesn't even make semantic sense, when you think about this way, because life in a greater, collective sense does not have a consciousness either, no more than 'love' or 'death'. Only 'your life has no meaning' does, which shows us that meaning is something that can be found (or lost).

James O'Sullivan Or perhaps it's just to eat, survive and reproduce. I prefer my outlook though!

Live to die

James O'Sullivan I share the same view. Never been to Dublin, but I'm sure if it involves being outside, with nature, it's a solid point of view.

James O'Sullivan Agreed. If you can derive maximum happiness while, for example, having a cup of tea on a rainy day (my preference), then that's all you need.

Games for playing, movies for watching, books for reading, and life for living. You re right man!

I really like that quote, not only is it useful but also creates another condition to ponder about the meaning of life.

Gentleman Why do you want to ponder it?

It's in human nature. And because it's being a big trouble in the minds of billions of men and women who walked this planet (thus a philosophical question), this video gives the answer in the hope that many will relax a bit. However, +Gentleman put it back up on our to do list since there it will always be ;-) I've done my 'research' for as long i remember me trying to become me and i do conclude to the same ideas The School of Life suggests. "The unexamined life is not worth living" said Plato through Socrates or vice verca and i guess the chicken made the egg who made the chicken... ;-) 42! Yeah!

Kind

@James Henry Smith What do I win?

will we ever understand the universe?

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That's not the meaning. Ask an earthworm

Its a byproduct of the actual meaning of life. Life isn't exclusively human. So lame

Robert Half Agreed. Phillipians 2:9-11

True

W A Where did the need for meaning come from? Many people groan and moan and say that life is meaningless. It really is, but life is like an empty blank canvas, and we are the painter. Where did the need to paint come from? Where did desire come from? Where and why did mattef form? When was the beginning of time? Many questions still need answers.

@@alepapini6271 a wise man told me the meaning of life is simply to live. There is no definite meaning. We create it ourselves right? I agree that happiness isn't the true meaning but a part of it. Its accomplishment. Even if we die, we will all exist in another form.

@@agentsquid9079 I think the need for meaning of life comes from God, because he created us, and therefore, he knows more about us. Hence, we should follow his commands but in our ways of life. That should be our intentions.🤔

It's been 2 years since your comment. What is your opinion about the meaning of life now ? Has anything changed ?

The problem with life meaning is that it's not about Human Life, but Life as a whole concept. When you mess up this concepts you end thinking about feelings like sadnes or happines or anguish etc...wich are just some chemical reactions derived from our insticts of social survival as a social species. The meaning of life is to continue cycling just like the core of life "the DNA" does, adapting and absorving and deleting ways to survive as it became more complex and more efficient. And that process can´t be apretiated in just one simple 80 year or less living period. We got to see the bigger picture of the universe to being able to see it.

Life will never matter death is the meaning lol

Good talk

The meaning of life is to survive the upcoming end of universe in which the planets and stars die out resulting in nothingness. We must strive as a species to overcome this challenge somehow and ensure our survival and the survival of others species and our culture.

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SimplyMayaBeauty Right? Too bad education systems all over the world fail us so much that a RU-vid channel has to do their job for them.

+J. Matthew Whatever it takes. Call it evolution.

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Some Guy u r absly...wrong..life has a meaning.

Life is meaningful if we are in Christ but if we are Satan life is meaningless. Christ is the owner of our life and this world so don't be discourage because time will come when Christ will come in second time we will have eternal life. Hold on to Him and you will receive the crown of life.

Some Guy that's called nihilism

Peter Kazavis It doesn't matter whether we exist or not. This story isn't about us.

jemferlie jhon Tabamo people tell that to you. But just try to think for yourself for once. You want to believe that because it makes you feel like you're part of something. That's the sad reality.

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I agree. it seems like a limited view. Even though I like the video, I propose a better meaning of life - to live it.

I think they are a more broad stroke, not a definitive, step-by-step formula.

Johannes Halberstadt Whenever you encounter this type of situation, where you are not quite sure how a person came to any sort of conclusion, consider asking yourself these questions: 1. How might they have come to any conclusion? 2. Am I comfortable with their conclusion? 3. How might I expand their conclusion to form a stronger or less broad conclusion? If you think carefully about Alain's message, he gives viewers a great opportunity to find meaning on their own. I understand how anyone might find his presentation on the Meaning of Life quite restrictive. We might find it unsettling to be told the meaning of life without a solid explanation as to how they came to their conclusion because it sounds like they might be trying to feed us a falicy as an authoritarian figure, so good on you for questioning. BUT, after some consideration with those three questions I posed, you might come to realize four important points as I have by watching this video: 1. Numbers make things easier to understand, with particular emphasis on the number three. A list of three feels imformative, but does not feel overwhelming. That is perhaps why Alain uses a list of three things (or a few more) in many of his videos. He may have had more ideas than Communication, Understanding, and Service in mind, but prioritized them since they are broad, practical things that everyone could use to acquire any sense of "meaning" in their lives. (This may not be true, but hopefully it may put into perspective why he chose three things). 2. His three ideas are broad. As stated above, this video, which covers a very touchey-feeley subject, could make people feel threatened because it gives an answer to a question they were looking to answer for themselves. This video may seem friendly but could also be trick by authority to keep us focused on "producing and consuming" as if the School of Life was a corporate scheme trying to answer deeper questions for us and therefore to keep us focused on other things. But I see it differently. In fact, Alain has structured his message so that it would be the opposite of limiting: he gave us the opportunity to figure out how to apply his own ideas in our own way. **He did rule out anyones idea of the meaning of life.** Making change and innovation and creativity might well be one person's pathway to finding meaning in their life, but Alain did not rule them out. A person can apply Alain's ideas with Communication and Understanding while working as a Political Leader, an Innovation Officer at the World Wildlife Fund, or a Opera Composer. 3. Alain may have gotten these ideas from patterns in human nature. The chance Alain picked up these ideas from Literature alone are low. Literature is helpful, but ideas presented from literature may not be as helpful as observing people for yourself. Authors of literature obersved life upfront and directly (without literature). So did Alain, probably. It is not difficult to observe and acknowledge the pain of a job (and life overall). If you have an unfulfilling job, you may wonder: do other people also have unfulfilling jobs like myself? Service is my favorite point Alain brought up for this reason. It brings up a very important point: we need fulfilling work, and perhaps the most fulfilling type of work involves knowing we are helping other people. Not only helping people in general, a secretary could be said to help people, but seeing the tangible results and smiling faces that show we are helping others. Conclusions in general are reached through patterns, and there are many patterns in human behavior, so it seems unlikely that Alain would be snatching some ideas like these without considering Primary Resources such as humans. (Although literature can very well communicate some grand insights into human needs, see School of Life's video on Suicide.) 4. Instead of simply questioning their method of coming to such a conclusion, see if you can expand their ideas to better fit your needs, if necessary. Personally, I find this video helpful and in no need of reconsideration. In fact, I think Alain's video is broad enough to help all, but also clear enough to keep me from wondering if it is in need of amendment. I agree that "questioning everything" is good, but remember that you should also question your own questions. Some questions can reach a conclusion faster than others, and some questions are better suited to certain topics, etc. Please know that this is not meant to be destructive criticism. I actually like the fact that you asked them at all, they are good questions. In fact, I responded because I essentially question a lot, and had the same question: "Why these three things?". I also don't know why he used them, but the above 4 points can help guide us towards a realistic idea of why. Hope this helps

Because all three concepts descend from the same concept - the breach of the internal/external divide. Meanings in language are arbitrary and don't exist naturally. We have to create them. A box is only a box when we give it a name and decide to distinguish it from other objects due to a list of arbitrary features. Simply put, we break the internal/external wall mentally (with 'understanding' that is 'communally' reinforced) and physically (through some activity that is hopefully noble, like service). Breaking down the border requires the self-delusion. We must 'trick' ourselves into believing that the 'truths' we have learned/created with others are transcendental and not just contained within our own heads. From this emerges both community + understanding, since other humans are required to reinforce our belief in transcendent meaning. Admittedly service is arbitrary - but it is an attempt to describe the physical breach of the internal/external. We must 'act' as though the meanings we have created are real, and so we must physically interact with the world. We could do this in a lot of ways, but the video has designated altruism as the key physical activity because it is the most moral.

Johannes Halberstadt Creating, making change and innovating are, in fact, "service". If the result doesn't serve people in some way, it's meaningless, don't you agree?

still, we love your works though. a salute here from the philippines!

Why is he not a hit .. because many more find it more interesting to watch and read things that will distract them from the meaniningless of life

+TheLastGentleman It would look like fixing something that needs to be fixed in the Universe , not a small percent of the problems we create by our very own existence.

***** At best we as a species would manage to cover up the garbage we produce by our very own existence.We're not there yet.We're here because of biology and biology is a sophisticated accident.That's where evidence points at.It take a religious mind to figure out a higher purpose and that's exactly why so many people are into religion.Most people , even so called atheists, can't cope with the fact that once we're dead we're not existing anymore.Can't cope with the fact that whatever we do in life we can't stop playing the game.Sure, one can kill himself but that won't fix life on planet Earth.So why would I imagine some superior goal surpassing the boundaries of imagination and have blind faith into something we can't even point a finger at? There is subjective meaning and purpose.There is no higher meaning and purpose.Farting in front of the tv, farting on an expensive yacht or while doing eco agriculture...is still farting.

francis z "What's the goal of surviving?" I like to think it's pretty much an almost never ending biological story. Billions of years ago before life was even a thing, there existed ancient cells and bacteria...which obviously now muted, multiplied/divided, and grew into you and me. Will it stop? No... and yes. Since this process we call "evolution" seems like it's not going anywhere soon here on Earth, unless extinction rises, such as plagues to a fucking large astroid impact.. Life is like a strong balloon that never seems to burst, until something or someONE ends its existence.

francis z

If you actually assume life is meaningless then your question is irrelevant. No one who accepts life as meaningless would ever ask that question.

Completely agree, That... And people just being dicks.

+MisterAwestasia Good examples at the end, it makes lots of sense. I agree, this channel has made me much more interested in these topics, I might explore them further academically

You are basically agreeing with the ideas in the video. You've explained the 'how' in finding out what is useful for serving other people. What wasn't good for you can help you understand what isn't good for others. Therefore you can apply that knowledge in the pursuit of service to others.

Well do you pick the right stuff for your team? And Do you tell your team what to do? That's what I think

Thank you! This comment has really been thought-provoking. It has really helped me understand more why I value what I value

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Wut?

***** Bro, amen to that.

***** No need to find me, ill come to you.

They just did make their own meaning.

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@@JosuePamer9 I was so naive 8 years ago. You are correct.

It's all pleasure to our senses. I believe the meaning of life should transcend these pleasures.

Thnqq...your recommendations are always so cool! ✨

@@pithypages6288 You are most welcome! Thanks a lot for your time! Best wishes for 2022:- )

The Manifold Curiosity Exactly! With or without meaning, it doesn't matter. People are just making a fuss on things, trying to be busy before their dying day that's all. People are simply trying to convince themselves that there is meaning, just something to make them feel good about themselves and the whole of Life... "Communication,Understanding and Service" are simply one of those (I can compare with the preachers and all that jazz). But they're all the same. Well, like it or not, it's per person: your trash my treasure and vice versa.

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Matt are there any others that you can suggest?

This shit sucks

***** Well, yes, I guess that is indeed what it means today. But I like it better to see as I said, for two reasons. Firstly, because if selflessness is doing what's best for the others before doing what's best for you, so I like to think that selfishness is the other way around, doing what's best for you before doing what's best for the others. And secondly... well, that way is much more polemic :P

This self-love stuff is not entirely but largely bullshit being pushed today. No, we should NOT be a little more selfish. We should be more selfless. We should try to think of others BEFORE our own sleves more. People these days don't want to commit to anyone or serve anyone. They are entirely narcissistic and self-centered

Nukilik and why should we? Just to point out I'm not saying that we SHOULDN'T help others, just that it's unwise to destroy oneself to help others. You know, you can't help anyone if you destroy yourself in the process. You need to be happy and healthy to do your best for other people. So yes, that means you should put your own welfare in the first place. Plus, selflessness, as an ideal, is irrational. It just wouldn't work if everyone were selfless. Not to mention how it destroys our emotional balance to just be everyone's pet/slave.

Because being selfless is one of the few beautiful things about people. Any idiot can follow the impulse to be selfish like a child. But when we say we love someone, we mean selflessness. We mean we care about their well being and needs over our own. I'd argue that if you've never loved something/someone enough to forget about yourself and your own needs/wants, you've had a sad life. That doesn't mean you always have to completely neglect yourself in ways that are not necessary. But plenty of people give their lives for the sake of a cause or a person and it's one of the most remarkable things one can do. These days people spend their days being self-centered and in speeches of self-love and self-care to justify their selfishness and become narcissistic pseudo-reactionary keyboard warriors. We need no incentive to be selfish.

Nukilik and why is it beautiful? And it seems you didn't quite get what I said. A kid's toys are theirs. They don't have the obligation to lend them. They do run the risk of having them broken, or worse. It's their right not to lend, while I do agree that lending them is, indeed, admirable. But there is the catch: if they lend it on their own will, that's selfish. They are choosing to, they will lend because that's what they want. Selflessness is lending a toy while they DON'T want to. When they want to play with the toy and they still lend it, at their own detriment, they are forced to because it's "the right thing". From all the psychological studies I've done, they all agree that love without self-love is detrimental to our emotional and mental health. There is no other way to mental health other than self-care. I think that if you study a little bit of psychology, instead of assuming the truth, you'd agree with me. Actually, you are at the right channel to research about that. The School of Life is a renowned emotional health school, not just a youtube channel.

1. Why experience? You will die and all experience will be gone anyway. Why is it important to gather such great experience in your life? 2. You cannot really compare different types of experience. Today you may choose to go out or stay at home. Would it be more worthwhile being outside or staying at home? You can hardly know. Similarly, between a person who experiences an ordinary happy life and another one who has to endure a lot of pain but still achieve something great at the end of his life, whose life is more meaningful? I don't think it is possible to compare. The thing is, your life is meaningful when you feel that it is meaningful, there is no general definition for that. The video above is a good one because it does not actually tell us what the meaning of life is (it does, but that is not a good definition either). It only mentions 3 types of activities that will help us 'feel' more meaning in life. When there is no way to derive the meaning of life philosophically, it is better to do it psychologically.

catprincess9 Even thought there is no such thing as happines

1GTX1 Happiness is derived from those actions which lead to long term well being of the organism. Short term joys/ecstasy might not lead to long term well being, and therefore might not as such be moral acts leading to happiness.

catprincess9 If a rapist gets happiness out of harming someone else... then how does that fit into a moral purpose of existence?

+kjk though I'm not completely agree with happiness being the sole purpose of life, I can still explain your wonder. The theory of happiness is targeted to the happiness to our society as a whole, but not just the happiness of individuals. The action of raping might create pleasure for one, but it imposes much more harm to society. When the harm is larger than the benefit, it brings detrimental effect to the society. I am still trying to figure out what meaning of life is, but I think it has to do with Human race rather than just ourselves. We are animals that are highly relied to each other after all.

+kjk Raping someone is a violation of their individual rights. . When we live in a society (two or more people), we need to invent the concept of human rights which is a contract between two or more people, so that each can pursue his life without coming in each others way. So the moral purpose of existence is to pursue personal happiness without violating the rights of others. A truly moral person would not hurt others in the pursuit of his happiness.

***** Too bad. The meaning of life is 42. Arrest me.

***** so you saw it coming )))

The meaning of life is 69

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+Adam Sujkowski I'll copy a comment I've written to another idiot such as yourself; It baffles me that even after watching the video affirming the biological purpose of life, you came up with that comment trying to sound smart. Tell me, smartass, if the purpose of life is reproduction, what is the purpose of reproduction? Perpetuation of life? Okay, why? Why is all that species strive to do perpetuate life (of their own kind) ? This is where philosophy comes in. The essence of meaning is subjectivity. It is subjective but by no means unreal. We assign meaning to things, and I find that quite beautiful and liberating, enriching, even. When you think about it, life would be that much less rich, mysterious and fascinating if we all somehow had an explicit, objective purpose. It would be nothing short of oppressive and demeaning. You're a fool to equate meaning with delusion. I usually don't belittle others, particularly on this channel, but your ignorant, thoughtless, arrogant, invaluable, and perhaps most importantly of all, demeaning opinion is worthy of nothing but spite. Go read a book., and look up the definition of meaning before you do. Meaning is personal. It is there to be assigned to things that have no objective meaning. You find that a delusion, I find it beautiful.

+Ivan Šalamon You are a moron, I've never said anything bad about life. Understanding that life is meaningless and purposeless is freeing and beautiful. It makes you immune to chronic depression and anxiety, the fear of death *completely* disappeares. Just because you regard meaninglessness as something negative doesn't mean everyone else does. Who the fuck said delusions can't be beautiful? You sure are an ignorant and arrogant one.

Adam Sujkowski We are, in fact, in agreement, but you seem to be a moron for semantic reasons. Meaning is, by definition, subjective. Conscious subjectivity by definition cannot be a delusion. Therefore, subjectivity is not a delusion. You're also an idiot if you think subjectivity is in any shape or form a delusion. A delusion implies a disconnection from reality. Meaning is just a perspective of what this reality is. You're an idiot if you think that "creating my own meaning" doesn't make life any more meaningful, because it precisely does. Again, probably just a very arrogant semantic mistake on your part, but just in case it isn't, you are using meaning to bring across a point, you clearly value beauty, and you literally need meaning to decode absolutely everything in everyday life and make sense of it. It is fundamental to your existence, possibly to the very fact that you are conscious and able to perceive things. How you can call me arrogant when you tell people that their lives are meaningless and that they are deluding themselves is baffling to me. Like you, I have come to terms with the fact that life is meaningless, and it absolutely was liberating and enriching because it leaves room for *subjectivity*, not delusions. This is the problem I have with your argument.

Ivan Šalamon There is one difference between us, I think that meaninglessness is freeing, you seem to think it's something negative. I tend to think that subjective claims are empty, for examle if someone said that the meaning of life is to beat your head against a wall he'd be just as right as someone who said that the purpose of life is to love people. You are saying that no matter what you say the meaning of life is, you are *always* right and I'm saying that no matter what you say the meaning of life is, you are *always* wrong. That's basically the same cconcept.

Adam Sujkowski No, I agree with you. Meaninglessness is freeing. Freeing us to subjectively find something *within* this given existence worth living for and appreciating. Meaning is there to be assigned to meaningless things. You seem to think that when I say subjective meaning of life I am talking about an explanation of what life is. To that I use the platitude; Life is what you make of it. You *choose* meaning, you find it. You decide how you will value something and what it will mean to you personally. One constructs or seeks his own meaning(s) in life and what life is to *him*. There is no right or wrong, and that is only possible because there is no objective purpose of life. (Other than a biological one) In a nutshell, personal meaning fills the void of no ultimate or objective meaning.

ThePeaceableKingdom Haha I read this after I posted, and you're saying almost exactly what I did.

ThePeaceableKingdom What if indeed there is an objective meaning to life?! And it is to bake pillows stuffed with succulents for your cousins!?!? ----- Truth is, nobody wants 'objective meaning' to life, all they want, and is searching for, is 'subjective meaning' for their own.

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Sam Moose great questions!

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but we dont now if we are all going to die it could happen but we dont know it. and even if that is true we can still find meaning in life itself like mentioned in a video life does not have a objective purpose for us to fulfill rather we create it on our own even if that means nothing will be left ultimatelty but i get what you are saying sometimes i feel the same

theres no that kind of meaning but you can find happiness and make yourself believe that your life has meaning

+Mary Smith i do agree. as ive said, lying to one self is another option. you might even wanna try out religion

+slim shady as a drunk scientist once said: dont think about it

***** oh the film was enjoyable. She was referring that the answer wasn't as she quoted 'satisfying'. Maybe she would like a more universal meaning of life, one that you dismissed.

You and everyone else knows what's the meaning of life if you search within ... Is to be happy.

Once our basic needs are fulfilled, we instinctively carry on looking for what make us feel good, Eg: We will choose a warm comfy bed to sleep rather than a cold and unpleasant one, we choose the sweetest fruit, we prefer beautiful views … we have been searching since the day we were born for things that bring our minds to these pleasant states; and happiness is the ultimate pleasant state. The problem is that these things only provided a temporal sensation, but we all would love to make it permanent; since the solution is obviously not by acquiring more things the answer lies in the mind ( the mind is the background against which everything exist) PS: Thumbs up to the School of life and its followers like you.

+Alejandro playmesalsa then what is happiness, and whats the difference between what you say and hedonism.

omar Elbeheri You're right there...