[ALOCHONA] How to measure happiness?

            I don't think President Nicolas Sarkozy is funny anyway. He wants to measure the prosperity of France by measuring the degree of happiness of the French citizens. A very innovative idea based on the mindset of a truly caring statesman. In fact every nation strives for economic and social prosperity to make its people happy. The French president says that the traditional way to measure prosperity with cold statistics never tries to measure the real happiness of the citizens. The rates of economic growth must reflect in the lifestyle of the people at home and outside. Piling up of money in the banks and a surging stock market hardly touches the real people's lives. Sometimes these statistics are deceptive and not based on realities. This is a unique and novel idea if people's degree of happiness could really be measured. As Bertrand Russell observed that human happiness is a matter of mind not of things. In philosophical terms the idea of happiness is an illusive phenomenon and subject to many variations. It will be impossible to determine what really make a person happy, is it money, love or something else? A bagger at the end of a day when he sits before his meal his happiness knows no bound. A millionaire's unhappiness with a sinking stock market is like a hell for him. We can safely say that a luxury house, an expensive car, a beautiful wife or a lovely child may not be enough to make a person happy unless that person knows what happiness is.

 

Akbar Hussain

 

          

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