In the article, "Unselfishness May be Key to What Makes People Happy", The New Zealand Herald explains that happiness "is the confusion between experience and memory - basically it's between being happy in your life and being happy about your life". Therefore, happiness is "how the story ends and how we remember it that determines our overall satisfaction with it." Think about it. If the event ends well, the memory will also end well, but if it ends horribly, the memory will too be remembered horribly.
Furthermore, The New Zealand Herald describes how citizens with an average income of about $75,000 or less "get progressively unhappier the poorer they get and people above that income do not get any happier, but they do feel a greater sense of satisfaction with their lives." On the other hand, those people who receive $75,000 or more do not initially have to be happy. Would you classify yourself as happy right now?
Article:
Authority: the New Zealand Herald
Accuracy: Many sources cited throughout the article.
Timeliness: 2011
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