Statistically, we have more sad people in life more than happy people. If you think this isn't true, ask 10 to 20 people this question and you'll see for yourself.
In this world we have more statistically sad people, and even if this might not truly translate to real life situations.
The reason why this is true is because people are faced with more difficult situations in life, so even though their life is not constantly sad, they still have more unpleasant moments in their lives, and the happy times are just not enough. Some people work 25 days in a month and out of these 25 days, they work 13 hours a day, spend 5 hours sleeping due to exhaustion, maybe spend 2 hours preparing for work, spend another 2 hours taking care of miscellaneous activities.
The married ones even have it more challenging because with kids, you can never fully sleep well, now if you're having marriage problems and your spouse is no longer available, then you're in an even deeper mess.
Picture this scenario: So if you have 5 to 6 hours of sleep, and you have a toddler of 2 year old, you might just spend 2 hours taking care of that child and only only sleep 4 hours. You'd waking up feeling exhausted, cranky, and unmotivated to even work.
Since Great productivity is mostly tied to how well we sleep, we can get to work grudgingly, and the face that challenge of a nagging boss, couple of deadlines that needs to met, with an insatiable boss that needs you to work on the clock to grow your company and enrich the fat pocket of your employers.
Then you repeat this template and cycle for 25 days out of 30 days. The remaining four days, you're probably on break, trying to catch your breathe, trying to stay mentally, physically and psychologically fit and someone suddenly asks you the question "are you happy or sad?"
but We already know the answer to this.
This is simply because people can actually have decent and fulfilling lives, but they're under pressure, sad because of responsibility that keeps growing and this doesn't have to do with anything relating to money, it's just the inability to be free.
Also money, or the process of making money is cagey. You work ro survive, you earn some decent money, but you cannot retire or stop to catch a break.
Someone people are earning decent money, but they cannot stop the job. People cannot leave toxic job environments when the pay is good, so even when their mental health is suffering at least they can pay the bill, and this is how we become tolerant to toxicity, pain, insult and degradation, because the money is coming in.
You see how you can still be sad even when you're earning good money?
Some of the most lucrative job opportunities are actually the ones with bosses who are sexual molesters or job requirements that requires you to nearly sacrifice your kidney for the job
it's either you keep staying in that system or you can no longer afford the good things in your life, cannot pay for those nice ice cream you give your kids, because even though you're happy they're smiling, your joy isn't complete and when joy isn't complete people don't categorically see themselves as complete happy people.
What can you do? Well nothing. Except you need to find a way to take the little happiness you derive from the smallest things and basically expand it. If you cannot even yes, you'll categorically count yourself as an unhappy person and fall into that category of more people who are actually unhappy in life.
