Track Your Happiness

Last week in class we talked about happiness and life goals.  We all agreed that we make goals (sometimes in the form of lists) for the ultimate goal of happiness.  However, happiness is hard to define because it is so relative.  After reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picult, I used to think of happiness as a sort of mathematical equation.  "Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."  Being a person who likes math because there's almost always one definitive answer, I thought putting such a term into a formula made it a lot easier to measure.  However, after thinking about what happiness really is, and discussing in class, I have found that it is hard to determine how happy a person can be.  Many factors can influence a person's happiness, and people's emotions change so much it's hard to tell.  But Mr. Bolos mentioned an interesting survey called "Track Your Happiness".  It is a free online survey in which iPhone users can sign up to receive texts (you pick what time and how often), to ultimately determine your happiness.  I signed up for it, and have taken a few of the surveys already.  I'll let you know how it goes, but if you have an iPhone, I highly recommend it because it is really interesting!