The happiness equation

It struck me as odd when I first found scientific confirmation that we remember bad things better. If the design of the universe was based on a positive principle, and my experience constantly reaffirms me that it is, then why would we forget the happy things? It really doesn’t make any sense if you look at it like that.

But if you take a moment and think about it, it actually makes perfect sense. You see, the reason that we have such difficulty in remembering the joy our journey brings is that fun is something you have. It implies a minimum of participation and only make sense when you have it.

This is quite the opposite when you look at the bad and the ugly because they exist in the past. In fact without them our past would probably be somewhat uneventful, not that it would matter of course! If the argument holds true we will most likely be having too much fun to care.

And quite rightly then, scientific evidence prove that the relation between fun and care is inversely proportionate to each other. This means that if you have more of the one, you will by equation have less of the other. The caveat of course is that the opposite of the equation also remains true, and having fun does not mean that we may not find a mountain of regret in the moment that follows. But that is generally prevented by the positive design principle of the universe.

When we do experience pain and regret it reminds us that we are on a journey of the soul. A journey that will always strive for resonance, and where dissonance confirm that we have another discovery to make. And with it we get another opportunity to feel the thrill of passion burning in our veins, yet another chance to feel the incredible range of emotion that our bodies are capable of. With dissonance we can marvel in the power of creation, the power that we unleash through learn and teach and grow.

Once again we seem to have scientific support for the law that explains the natural order of resonance. According to this law a group of fertile females will synchronize their menstrual cycles, different grandfather clocks in the same room will start to tick together, and it also explains why happiness display a quality that can only be described as contagion. Not only does a happy subject zero significantly increase the chance of happiness in friends living within 15 square miles of them, but friends who do not know the happy study subject also show an increased chance of happiness. (But don’t quote me on the 15 miles)

It must be emphasized that any increase in happiness coefficient is directly proportional to personal involvement and choice. Without choice and action there is reflection and planning with their inherent qualities of bad and ugly.

If all of this has left your head spinning then, even without the necessary research to back me up, I can confidently say that the feeling is a common side-effect when we try to find scientific proof for reality.

In the same way that we lose our reality if we try to prove Einstein’s Theory of relativity, trying to use science to make sense is rather senseless.

 

Those who still doubt in the scientific proof of the universal happiness principle are invited to examine the following evidence from the universal language of symbolism, evidence that show a thumbs-up mean that everything is going well or it means a hitch request for a ride.