When you ask people “what are you living for?” they will probably answer that they are living to be happy.
However, why is it hard to be happy?
Happiness is like fog. The more you want to get that, it will easily disappear.
In hunter-gatherer societies, we were satisfied eating vegetables without any sauce,
However, today people desire to sprinkle cheese, yogurt dressing and bacon on salads.
When we stand up, we are tempted to sit down. when we sit down, we are tempted to lay down. When we lay down, we are tempted to sleep.
If you made 1 million dollars, you will desire 10 million dollars, 10 million dollars to 100 million dollars, 100 million dollars to 1 billion dollars.
In the materialistic society, a lot of people are more likely to have dreams of happiness while they are buying lottery tickets.
Even if you win the lottery, that happiness will not carry on the past six months.
You can’t possibly believe that money doesn’t make you happy.
Then, what can make us happy? What can we do to boost our happiness?
Before we try to get the answer from any self-improvement books or ancient philosophers, let’s consider science first!
Why we are happy? How come we feel happiness?
Happiness is not a present from Mother Nature for showing mercy.
From the book by Richard Dawkins ‘The selfish gene’ mentioned that our organism’s body serving the purpose of DNA transferring creatures
Gene admires eternal life.
Certain genes survive as a flower,
Certain genes survive as a cat,
Certain genes survive as a human.
unidentified in terms of remaining their gene.
Perhaps, it might not be the right expression of the gene’s desire to survive.
Genes feel no emotion.
Genes are just living implicitly.
If so, how do we become to be an emotional animal?
The opposite of happiness, we call ‘suffering’ which is the essential ingredient of all survival and reproduction.
For example, when the lion approaches a man if the man can feel happiness instead of insecurity.
The man’s gene no longer exists.
When you are hungry due to the lack of food,
When you cannot raise your social status,
Bullying from your group,
Unattractive to women or men,
When you feel rejected by a lover,
If the person never suffers from rejection,
The person may not even be able to survive now.
Our brain inevitably takes action in certain situations to transfer the information of suffering, in order to survive and reproduce.
In contrast, the positive emotion of happiness is such a prize, then you will increase the chances of survival and reproduction.
Why do people like tasty food?
Why would people want a promotion?
Why do we want to have a girlfriend or boyfriend?
Why do we want to find favor in everyone’s sight?
We can easily say it is to achieve happiness,
Human beings came from the same as other animals, we are allowed to feel happiness during eager for survival and reproduction.
Subconsciously we forget the fact that we are animals.
Same as lions from the savanna, tigers from a jungle, recently emigrated Homo sapiens also set their sights on survival and reproduction.
Man differs from animals in that they can have a handle on their instincts.
Genghis Khan is the best example.
Genghis Khan was eager to uniting the Mongolian empire and expand continuously.
He conquered the largest contiguous empire in history from the Black Sea to the Pacific after several battles,
Most of the books represented him as a conqueror,
From the biological perspective, he is the most successful survival machine for its genes.
One research team from Oxford University has analyzed DNA from people from China, Russia, and Central Asia.
Surprisingly, about 16 million men possess DNA of Genghis Khan.
This means one out of 200 men all around the world is the descendants of Genghis Khan.
These people hit the jackpot.
Although not all of us possess DNA inherited from Genghis Khan,
All of our DNA which survived millions of years are highly advanced DNA that allows us to survive and reproduce.
Also, feelings of men are just like an algorithm coded in our body by this DNA.
Keep it simple, stupid, DNA is like an algorithm that allows us to feel pain during adverse times of survival and reproduction, and to feel happiness during positive events of survival and reproduction.
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