介绍： In adulthood the things that bring great joy-birth, love, marriage-also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last, loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated. My dictionary defines happy as "lucky" or "fortunate", but I think a better definition of happiness is "the capacity for e...

介绍： In adulthood the things that bring great joy-birth, love, marriage-also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last, loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated. My dictionary defines happy as "lucky" or "fortunate", but I think a better definition of happiness is "the capacity for enjoyment". The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It's easy to neglect the pleasure we get from loving and being loved, the company of friends, the freedom to love where we please, even good health. Nowadays, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, we have turned happiness into one more thing we "gotta have". We're so self-conscious about our "right" to it that it's making us extremely unhappy. So we chase it and consider it to be the same as wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren't necessarily happier. While happiness may be more complex for us, the solution is the same as ever. Happiness isn't about what happens to us—it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the ability to find a positive for every negative, and view a setback as a challenge. It's not wishing for what we don't have, but enjoying what we do possess. United States President Barack Obama defines what makes him happy while speaking at the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative at a town hall meeting last year.....