Article 2: The Degree Of Happiness by Betrand Russell

This will be my second post and the article that I had chosen this time is an interesting article entitled “The Degree of Happiness” written by Betrand Russell. Once again the title reveals the content of the article but again the content is so impressive and qualified to be debated and questioned. Let start again, can you define the meaning of happiness? Open dictionary wouldn’t help because happiness is a feeling that every human encounter in life and largely in correlating with deep emotional feeling. Getting married, receive huge chunk of reward, celebrate birthday with a family is a common type of happiness that most of us enjoy and the quote “enjoy even the littlest thing” is often seem soothing because you know that happiness is a great feeling and everyone want to be happy right? 

To think it thorough there is a degree of happiness. Two sort of happiness is dividing open between two which is one, open to any human being and the other for those who can read and write. Sounds peculiar right? It has it logic as happiness does not depend on intellectual sources and can be as simple of lying on the sofa after a long day of work. Like I say, happiness is keen to be found at almost anywhere and even at the smallest and simplest thing like texting your girlfriend can cheer you right up. But for all we know, that type of happiness is only classified on the lowly educated section of the community or to be precise it only apply to normal-everyday civilian. 

Albert Einstein: He is happy in his world

To the higher educational section of the community like the researcher, archaeologist, scientist or even paranormal researcher, their happiness lies within their lifelong research which require little amount of emotion and more to their addiction and satisfaction from their work. Betrand wrote, "Einstein is happy while the best painter starve" proves his point that men of science still practices good old fashion domestic bliss from their curiosity and hunger for knowledge and solution to their problem. Though the term happiness varies from people to people, it is concluded that happiness is a strong feeling that nobody would object.