people's definition of success is quite relative, depending on other people's current perceptions and ideas of how we should be or what people envy, or image.
You can easily replace success with happiness in that sentence.
For example, spending more time sitting and walking in parks, feeding and playing with stray dogs, and remaining in the present moment (whatever that means) sounds extremely boring to me. It would make me miserable rather than happy.
> You can easily replace success with happiness in that sentence.
Yes, but my point was that often people's definition of happiness contains other concepts, which are not investigated by ourselves. Or, we accept moving/relative definitions for these that are not our own. One concept depending on other concepts etc.
>It's more complicated than it looks.
I think when we investigate the meaning of happiness (for ourselves) then its actually simpler.
You can easily replace success with happiness in that sentence.
For example, spending more time sitting and walking in parks, feeding and playing with stray dogs, and remaining in the present moment (whatever that means) sounds extremely boring to me. It would make me miserable rather than happy.
It's more complicated than it looks.