Is Happiness a mood or a life choice?

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Introduction

For a long time , there has been a heated debate on what happiness is and what it is not and what leads to happiness or the lack of it . It is not surprising to come across people who classify happiness as a mood just like it is not a big issue to come across others who think that happiness is not a mood but an emotional state that is related to what one does , what one is , what one has , how one relates

with others , one 's achievements , one 's successes and failures as well as what one looks forward to

For the most part , it is always believed that happiness comes from the state of contentment or satisfaction of someone . If this is the case then it is likely and actually does lead to a situation where the state of being happy is dictated by things happening around us , some of which we have control over and other that we do not . Ours is a society of conditioning where a child grows up knowing that after attaining a good score in class , I need to be happy and if your team is beaten in the football competition , you are supposed to be unhappy

Other explanations pertaining to happiness exist . The religious groups have also taken their stand on happiness and the Catholics have always associated perfect happiness to principles and rules of God . This position is shared...