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Has the value of happiness increased?

Created by : shilpa yadav, Associate/Sr. Associate -(NonTechnical), Hindustan Thompson Associates  | 03 25 2011 06:10:08 +0000
Keywords : value happiness watch olden days. old is gold
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n olden days a kid was given watch when he passed metric. That was for a rich family. The amount of happiness quotient was high, because receiving a watch was a big thing. Today t\even the toddlers have them. Owning a mobile phone too is a normal thing for kids today. But it seems normal to them and does not make them so happy like in olden days. Has the value of happiness increased?

  
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I think yes. The times have changed . The values have changed and the perceptions too. Today things which made us happy are no more of important to gen next.
By shilpa yadav, Associate/Sr. Associate -(NonTechnical), Hindustan Thompson Associates  03 25 2011 06:10:08 +0000
 
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Value of happiness is directly proportional to the inflation ! In a materialistic world even if the mind dictates you to be happy, it is physically not possible when the guy next door drives up on a shiny new sports car etc.
By Jaygopal Raghavan, Marketing Manager, Landmark Group  | 05 12 2011 07:04:54 +0000
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Happiness is state of mind, its because of consumerism, that it seems that value of happiness increased.
By Abhijit Anand Prabhudan, Admin/Facilities Manager, Ca*****  | 04 04 2011 13:46:19 +0000
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Of course you are correct Ms.Shilpa, however the happiness is related to one's mind.
By NATTERAJA R. ARIKRISHNAN, GM-Projects, Bentec Electricals & Electronics Pvt. Ltd  | 03 28 2011 18:02:14 +0000
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I am in agreement with your point of view.
By Rathin Deb, Freelance Retail Consultant  | 03 28 2011 06:24:23 +0000
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Definitely yes, Because Happiness is most tough to find now a days.
By Jasmin Pawar, HR Manager, HR GLOBE CONSULTING  | 03 25 2011 12:30:17 +0000
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It depends on how we bring up the child, inputs from childhood, for one family mobile phone may be nothing, but other it is great gift, we should not measure the happiness with materials, instead train the children how the value of happiness like thinking in positive ways, overcoming stress, respecting others view, etc, then automatically the child we learn how to be happy. We need to train the child to become valued human being
By Vijay Bhasker, Librarian, Vaishnavi School of Architecture and Planning  | 03 25 2011 12:05:11 +0000
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I would like to say yes but we can not measure the value of happiness, it always infinity and increased. Ups and down are continue in happiness. But we should always try to keep happy ourselves....
By Virag Shah, Confidential  | 03 25 2011 10:46:40 +0000
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Yes, Shilpa, times have changed and so the degree of happiness.
By Mohammad Bakhsh, Project Leader/Managing Consultant, Freelancer  | 03 25 2011 09:44:09 +0000
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Material comforts have enhanced the value of happiness! We have a paradigm shift from contentment in everything will only endure one's happiness to material comforts!
By S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner  | 03 25 2011 06:32:44 +0000
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Before ten years we feel that everybody living in machine life,but we notice now a days our life style is adopt to live a robotic life,we need excess money to live our day to day life,good example is we have to calculate our sleeping hours
By VIMALAN , Construction-Construction Management, PARSVNATH DEVELOPERS LTD  | 03 27 2011 14:47:22 +0000
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Happiness is ones state of mind, you cannot measure its value on a scale of less and more. Its actually hard to get your kids to be modest. You don't want to hit them when they get unruly. We don't make them humble enough. Do you remember how our parents used to handle that? Getting gifts from them is thus a memory to us.
By Tanmay Gaur, Freelance Software Developer  | 03 25 2011 12:39:32 +0000
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Ms Yadav, Good and very vague Q. There is no scale to measure happiness & its value. But in todays dynamic & materialistic world, happiness will be always at low. If you talk about materialistic value, then it may have gone up, BUT if talk ethically the values have gone too much down. Imagine the happiness we use to get during childhood for small things and compare with happine/mobile/bike/cloths/...? Definitely we enjoyed more happiness in small things. So I would say the VALUEs are definitely gone DOWN.
By Nilesh Jain, Project Manager, A Leading Media/Telecom Co.  | 03 25 2011 11:34:20 +0000
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Depends on where we are coming from... When talking of old days we must remember if there were kids happy with watches, there were also parents who were happily giving their children cars and some may be Mercs or BMWs!!! and today also there are street children who are happy if we smile at them?? I think it is a shift in our own relative position in society which makes us see various facets.
By Vinay Mehta, Electrical Engineer-Utility DSCL  | 03 25 2011 10:00:40 +0000
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Hi Shilpa, What you are talking about is "Conditional" Happiness. That is - "If I get THIS I shall be happy". After some time the "THIS" loses its attraction and you would be thinking about getting "THAT". This is to say that a person, mainly adult, keeps shifting the Goal Post for Happinessor the “Happiness Meter”.

Take a 2 or 3 year old kid. He is not bothered about anything. The kid can play with an tri-cycle or some other toys. If the parents happen to visit your native village and do not take any of the toys, the kid still would be happy playing around with anything it can lay its hands around. Even if there is nothing (toy or any other play things) it still would be happy doing something or other. The kid still would be blissfully happy playing around with a used cardboard box as it is when it plays with an expensive toy car.

So, happiness is the same. Take any era, BC or AD, it is the same. It is only that adults have and keep shifting the Goal Post for Happiness. 

And one more thing. As the so called "Value for being happy increases", one's income level also increases. Otherwise (if the income level remains un-changed) human beings learn to adjust their happiness level by undergoing spiritual transformation where they learn what is said in the first two paragraphs ;-). The rest remain miserable.   

Thanks
By G A Narayan, VP - Marketing, KE Housing P. Ltd.  | 03 25 2011 07:17:06 +0000
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