珍珠:

Feeling of happiness is not for all time for the life.  It varies at different time to suit personal situations. It is easier for women to appreciate when the situation comes up, I think. My first reaction on your first comment was that men seem not to buy the feeling of the happiness that women buys.  At same time, it is very often that women would enjoy the feeling of happiness for something their husbands do.  That's why the husbands have the power to fulfill the feeling of the happiness that women expect.

On the other hand, I am thinking whether men feel more difficult to feel the happiness due to some reality.

止善:

Perhaps starting from the beginning we have different definitions for happiness. If a person can claim happiness at one moment, then switches immediately to a different mood, how important is it to talk about such claimed happiness? Or even if a person can be happy one day and not happy the next day, will that be a worthwhile topic to talk about?

There are many very happy men, and many unhappy men, likewise, same applies to women. I am not sure your categorical descriptions fit my life experiences to answer your questions. I really don't see much difference between men and women regarding happiness. Men and women are different, of course. However, I don't think those differences constitute any bases for men being less happy than women.

If your comments and questions reflect your personal experiences, then perhaps, you are more qualified than I to answer those questions.

My point is how true a person's feeling can be. If a person claims happiness, is this person truly happy? Or is this person deceiving self in a very temporary manner? Certainly, Buddhism sees all of the emotional swings of human beings bearing no eternal truth. Do you agree? Buddhism also advocates the eternal truth which contains the eternal happiness. This eternal happiness certainly is not achievable just by an arbitrary thought of self being happy.

What is exactly happiness all about? I see this question as profound as understanding life and self truthfully. As indicated by the title of your article, neither there is a consensus, nor a quantifiable definition.

Well, ...., I still don't see how my responses could draw the suggestive and finger-pointing comments in the first place.

Do you know my shoes now? Hope you do at least from a specific perspective.

Thanks for the follow up.