英语美文：Happiness Equates with Fun

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Happiness Equates with Fun?

I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such aglamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. Ifso, you have some mistaken ideas about the natureof happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate happinesswith fun. The truth is that fun and happiness havelittle or nothing in common. Fun is what weexperience during an act. Happiness is what weexperience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activitiesthat help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do notbring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us thathappiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access toglamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness".

But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all theirfun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, profoundloneliness.

The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actuallydiminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated withhappiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true:More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness.They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children,professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.