「追求幸福，錯了嗎！？」
早安～你對幸福的定義是什麼呢？
來看 #BBC 打破對幸福的迷思
🌼Why our pursuit of happiness may be flawed
人生就該追求幸福快樂嗎？
💓想從生活中得到什麼？近來你應該有機會、也有理由問自己這個問題。也許你想花更多時間與家人在一起，或者想找一份更有成就感和安全感的工作，或者想改善健康狀況。不過，人為何有這些需求呢？
What do you want from life? You’ve probably had the opportunity and the cause to ask yourself that question recently. Perhaps you want to spend more time with your family, or get a more fulfilling and secure job, or improve your health. But why do you want those things?
🍀Chances are that your answer will come down to one thing: happiness. Our culture’s fixation on happiness can seem almost religious. It is one of the only reasons for action that doesn’t stand in need of justification: happiness is good because being happy is good. But can we build our lives on that circular reasoning?
答案可能歸結為一件事：幸福。
在我們的文化中，對幸福的執著幾乎是宗教性的。這是唯一不需要辯解的行動理由：快樂是有益的，無需原因。可是，人生能建立在這種循環推理的基礎上嗎？
🌸Considering the importance of the question, there’s remarkably little data on what people want from life. A survey in 2016 asked Americans whether they would rather "achieve great things or be happy" and 81% said that they would rather be happy, while only 13% opted for achieving great things (6% were understandably daunted by the choice and weren’t sure). Despite the ubiquity of happiness as a goal, it’s hard to know how to define it or how to achieve it.
這個問題很重要。可惜，對於人們想從生活中獲得什麼這方面的研究數據非常少。在2016年的一項調查中，當美國人被問及，希望「獲得偉大的成就還是獲得快樂」時，81%的人選擇「快樂」，只有13%的人選擇偉大的成就。可以理解的是，6%的人被這個選擇嚇到了，表示不確定。儘管幸福快樂是普世目標，但人們很難知道如何定義或者如何實現它。
🌷Yet more and more aspects of life are judged in terms of their contribution to the phantom of happiness. Does your relationship, your job, your home, your body, your diet make you happy? If not, aren’t you doing something wrong? In our modern world, happiness is the closest thing we have to a summum bonum, the highest good from which all other goods flow. In this logic unhappiness becomes the summum malum, the greatest evil to be avoided. There is some evidence that the obsessive pursuit of happiness is associated with a greater risk of depression.
生活中越來越多的因素被用來衡量幸福感，比如說人際關係、工作、家庭、身體、飲食等等…… 這些都能讓你快樂嗎？如果不能，是不是做錯了什麼？在現代世界，幸福是我們所擁有的最接近「至善」的東西，是所有其他事物的源頭。在這樣的邏輯下，不快樂成了「至惡」，是要避免的最大邪惡。有證據表明，對幸福的追求越過分，產生憂鬱的風險就越大。
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