Everything beyond having food every day should be considered pure happiness. however the society we live in has conditioned us that we need more to be happy.

Material things do make us happy for a short term until we wish for something else. Each thing we buy raises our happiness expectation level higher. Next time we need something new, something that exceeds that level or else its just another thing that we need to have and does not bring us happiness. It could be just a grocery for us but for someone else it is a treasure that he's happy to have.

The only lasting happiness comes from ability to make others happy. For someone it could be just a small talk, for another just a smile.

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