When the question comes out as 'how much happy you are' rather 'are you happy', it gives me a really crazy feeling. It makes me think, do we need to measure our happiness? Is it even possible to measure happiness? What should be our criteria to measure it?
The answer I got is, we don't have to measure our happiness. Well, you may agree or argue with it. But I'm sharing what I found necessary to understand and useful to be happier in life.
There are no criteria that can let us measure our level of happiness. We do measure it by our 'idea of happiness' and 'comparing things with others'. You can relate this to your life. No matter if it's materialistic or not, we do measure things depending on our perspective about happiness.
Now the thing is, happiness has a different meaning for all of us. What makes you happy may not make someone else happy. They have their own meaning of it. A good job, life partner, travel can make people happy. But measuring our happiness depending on this criteria is foolish. Because there are many who are perfectly happy even without having any of this.
Happiness can't be measured. Yeah, we can say others to understand how happy we are. But when we use the 'term' measure or answer the question 'how happy we are' we make it difficult for ourselves to feel the pure sense of happiness. I think we can ask ourselves about this to find out 'how we are doing in life' but there should be no 'measurement'. And never compare your happiness with others. It will never match and make you happier.