Here is an excerpt from an article called The Paradox of the Declining Happiness of Women.
"By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the
past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well‐being indicate that women’s happiness
has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well‐
being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well‐being, and is pervasive across
demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a
gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well‐being
than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher
subjective well‐being for men."
Happy ?
Why should people be happy ?
Would a more mature possition be content ?
If one is seeking to be happy, what does one do ? Take drugs to mask or drink like a fool to mask ?
Ok one has an issue lets just say, now why is such an issue ?
Look at any brat and see how they go into some rage to get what they want ? but is that what they truly need ?
Then issues of another standing over one ? but why is that, maybe for ones own good in some way or it's just they who are the moron ?
Such may come down to wants ? that are ego related etc, obssesions ? to young or just imature regardless of ones age !
But one who is content is what ? Matured to understand that their is more to live than self indulgances. one can be happy to see others do well and also see others fall and understand that life is learning that failing is or can be a great learning that will give one foundations to build one with more strength than one had before.
I could go back and see that I did something stupid once and That was not good at the time for me at all ! but it has given me so much understanding of not only myself but also much about others, I see that such was a blessing to me now truly, because I learned so much from it all totaly.
That now I can sort of laugh at them all, for they do not understand ? but do they truly want to understand or just make light of such as a simple fool would, so I look such as just ignorant fools, for they are not truly grounded. Are they real friends or worthy or fickel simple minded people ?
Most people will like to play you, be they even family for their own ends ! so one has to stand up to such ! or you will lend yourself to their abuse of you ? because once the abuse kickes off it's harder to stop.
So when I was working for my dad, I look back and think, I should of held him and my elder brother up on some points and said don't try and use me as a sh1t rag buster ! I am not your nigger Slave to be just used and abused with no regard !
But that damage has been done, and nothing can be fixed about it, as it's Held solid ! so the total trust is not their with such people even now ! not that I do not love them, but I truly know what they are like in fact. not everything about such people are crap, but just as with friends their is always somthing you do not like about them or do not love say, but they are good to be with !
So if we are seeking to be Happy, I think that's a foolish possition. because there is a lot more to it than just that.
But in reality people who are shallow are in fact a pain !
When it comes to woman and Men, the years gone by men were pigs in general, in that they did not hold or Value women, nor other men in to much regard ? It showed in general ! But nowadays I would say that the Pendulum has only swung from one Ignorance to another type of ignorance, That the general public are just shallow and played for fools in fact ! in thinking that they are the bees knees ? when it's all truly about demands ! Nothing to do with Grace at all !