Can you order these in priority of importance for achieving happiness?
Health
Family and Friends
Wealth
Education
Faith in God
Safety
Freedom
Health
Family and Friends
Wealth
Education
Faith in God
Safety
Freedom
Family and Friends (even if you lose your health, they're there for you)
Health (it's hard to be happy when you're coughing up blood)
Education (freedom, safety, wealth and health all flow from it)
Freedom (you need some to be happy)
Safety (I often don't like to be safe, live outside the comfort zone)
Wealth (I know some damn happy poor students and some miserable rich guys)
Faith in God (but I'm agnostic, so yeah...)
Can you order these in priority of importance for achieving happiness?
Can you order these in priority of importance for achieving happiness?
Health
Family and Friends
Wealth
Education
Faith in God
Safety
Freedom
Faith in God I believe to be extremely detrimental to personal happiness. It won't seem that way when you still have your faith... but lose it, come to grips with that loss, and reevaluate who you are and what you want out of life... and I think most will realize like I did that you are much better off and much happier than you were when you still had your faith. Though again, it can depend largely on the person. Some people just don't have the drive to work toward self-actualization without a book or spiritual leader telling them exactly what to do to get there.
Wealth can be very important to happiness, if you are smart about it. If you surround yourself with other people who are just as wealthy as you are, it will mean nothing to you. If you are irresponsible with your wealth, it will probably be a source of misery and stress for you. So it depends on the person. If you have to work to achieve your wealth, you'll also probably appreciate it more. Especially if you keep the same friends.
Being that all these things are subjective to one's own experiences, I'll answer according to mine:Can you order these in priority of importance for achieving happiness?
Health
Family and Friends
Wealth
Education
Faith in God
Safety
Freedom
Holy Fuck that's a fairly condescending attitude - even for you! Did you mean it to sound lke that?
Speaking as someone who was raised in a non-denominational household and has gone in the other direction I completely disagree. I am so much more at ease with myself and happier since getting to grips with God and my faith. I don't want to sound all born again - because I'm not, I had this faith all along
You're not rich are you Nic?
TBH, this post doesn't read like you at all.
Then you are not in a position to disagree. I said that as long as you have your faith, and as you admit, you always had it, then it's going to seem like being closer to God makes you happier. I was there before. I used to think that my faith was the only good thing in my life and saved me from killing myself. I didn't realize at the time it was part of what was making me miserable. Since you've never thrown off those shackles completely, you can't agree or disagree with me.