CAN HAPPINESS BE THE POINT OF HUMAN EXISTENCE?
Psychology reveals that understanding human motivation is remarkably simple. We live, on a basic psychological level, simply to seek happy, pleasant emotions and sensations and to avoid negative, painful emotions and sensations. Human psychology, as complex and intricate as it appears, can easily be reduced to that basic proposition. Every human endeavor or behavior pattern is aimed simply to achieve happy emotion and minimize negative emotion. Though human behavior often seems very complicated, elaborate, ambivalent, and often “irrational,” the point to it all is emotion. Yes, the point to life is how we feel! But what else explains things better? After all, what good is a close marriage unless it makes you feel happy? What good is a nice income unless it leads to happiness and satisfaction? Why achieve a goal if it didn’t make you feel fulfilled? Why be in love unless it makes you feel good? What good is a good meal, or warm bed, or a secure shelter unless it provides good, comfortab
