What’s so bad about feeling happy?

Not seeing happiness as the most important goal in life doesn't mean a person doesn't want to be happy. Is it really to our benefit that some people gain happiness by hurting others?

And extreme happiness can lead to unhappiness not because of some kind of some kind of "evil eye", but because if you lose the source of the happiness, you can become unhappy in proportion to the loss.

http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1457741-0

17 March 2014

Why is being happy, positive and satisfied with life the ultimate goal of so many people, while others steer clear of such feelings? It is often because of the lingering belief that happiness causes bad things to happen, says Mohsen Joshanloo and Dan Weijers of the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their article, published in Springer’s Journal of Happiness Studies, is the first to review the concept of aversion to happiness, and looks at why various cultures react differently to feelings of well-being and satisfaction.

“One of these cultural phenomena is that, for some individuals, happiness is not a supreme value,” explain Joshanloo and Weijers in their review.

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