Happiness mainly comes from people's satisfaction with life, happiness and sense of value. At present, in the test of happiness, many indicators are usually put forward around these three aspects. That is to count a person's experience in contentment, health (including mental health), self-confidence, mentality, interpersonal relationship and family, so as to determine a person's happiness. Since happiness is an empirical value and a feeling, it can be imagined that the key to happiness lies in solving people's desires.
People's desires should be divided into two kinds, one is physiological and the other is artificial. Physiological desire is the most basic, and it is also the first thing that people should satisfy. For example, a person's good health and food and clothing are indispensable to the needs of the opposite sex and the greatest foundation and source of happiness. In the past, human beings had great difficulties in this respect, so it was impossible to consider the issue of happiness. All it can do is try to get some intermittent happiness in life, or pleasure, not happiness.
In modern society, since happiness was put forward, we can see that human beings have made great progress in solving the problem of physiological desires, and the next thing to be solved is some artificial desires. It is not difficult to understand that the emergence of artificial desires is related to the living environment, or to people's world outlook. Moreover, most of them are based on the comparison between people. It first compares with people around it, and then compares with people in media such as TV, books, dramas and stories, thus forming its own desires or establishing its own ideal world. As for whether this ideal world is reasonable or possible, it depends on everyone's mentality.
Living in an environment closely related to society, it is inevitable and necessary to produce artificial desires. We say this is inevitable, because people are emotional animals and have a natural tendency to yearn for beautiful things. We say it is necessary because human beings need progress, pursuit, solving our physiological needs and ensuring our happiness foundation. Therefore, although we know that human desires will also bring many obstacles to human happiness, it is obviously not a desirable attitude to think that nothing is true because of this. Let me say: Hope without desire is the greatest desire of human beings.
It should be admitted that it is very difficult to solve the problem of human desire, especially relying on personal comprehension ability. Fortunately, human beings have good conditions for cultural exchange and inheritance, and can not only get legal and moral help, but also gain insights from the experience of their predecessors and the exchange of ideas of their contemporaries. Therefore, in theory, it is entirely possible to gather human wisdom and control human desires at an appropriate level. As in the past, people create religious ideas as examples; In new China, we have also made new attempts with the help of the ideology of * * *, and the effect is still certain.
From the past experience of human beings, we can see that the fundamental way to solve the problem of artificial desire is to rely on human spiritual strength. Man's spiritual strength is enough to enable us to achieve proper control over man-made desires; Let us know what we should aspire to; It can even make up for the defects when people's physiological desires are not satisfied, so that we can get better happiness. This is also related to what modern people often say about spiritual life. People's spiritual strength is obtained in the richness of spiritual life. As for how to live a healthy spiritual life, let's talk about it as another topic.