The happiness factor

Yesterday, I read an article about the correlation between money and happiness. How money could help us to have more delight options in life, make them less risky and somehow seems to make people happier.
In the certain amount of money, it does help people live happier. For example, when you sick, you could go to the best doctor and get the best medicine, when you want to decide an investment you do not worry much about getting broke, you can always buy the most comfortable bed and your decisions are less risky.

But, doesn't mean rich people are immune to emotional destruction, they can be hurt, sad, and cry. Yeah, you can always buy a bed but not a sleep.

Beside, if everybody wants to live American average lifestyle with Indonesian average salary, then it possibly will only raise unhappiness rather than happiness.

So my questions are:
Until which point in life when we know enough is enough?
As I am young and I am so optimistic toward my career, I want to grasp the best. I want to fulfill myself with experience and I am not afraid of failure because I know I will get up and do it better.

Secondly, is there anything beside money that will bring happiness, security, and fulfill our desire?

In my opinion, the more we exposed to the freedom, equal rights, civilization, and knowledge; the more we demand things we didn't considered before.

Many Americans are so worried about their state of happiness. They keep sample their mood like every day to check if they are happy or not. And in fact, me too. I always try to do things which makes me happy. And I am not even from America continent.

My definition of happy is: Reading. Eat good food. Help others. Good humor. Good movies. Talk to boyfriend. Etc.

I wonder if a vietnamese or nordic will have the same definition of happiness as I do.

For example, if I live in Arctic and I demand a beautiful sunset, it will be the same like Indonesian demands show. Or Indonesian demands gay marriage. It is, somehow, not feasible.

So, my question, do actually, human in general are happy? How we enhance happiness? How we multiply our happiness? How do we share our happiness with others? How do we feel happy and at the same time we won't be greedy?

Honestly, I am not sure if someday I will be someone, like someone really big. Of course, I like to show my talents sometimes, but I don't think that ruling other people is included on my dream list.

I am just so sure, that I want to see people I care become successful. I think they will be someday! I believe that my sisters and my boyfriend will be real supers someday.
Surrounded by successful people made me feel happy.

Of course, unconsciously, I take granted of people success. For example, I took granted of my parents wealth in so many ways.
If my parents didn't support me with facilities, there's no way I could be in cool kids circle, there's no way I could study better with books and everything they provide, I never worried about money because my parents always give me enough supply, it is my own thinking to save up because I don't want to make them broke instead.

But when I get older, in this age to be exact, their wealth is now nothing to me. Cool kids are also nothing.

I live alone and I made new circle of friendship. Nobody knew me before. Nobody heard my name before. Or maybe they did, but of course different person as my name is so common.

These are example, how actually money and relationship could bring happiness.

I realize that the quality of everything always overlap the quantity.

But quality is abstract, and quantity is more measurable.

Work, stuffs, degree, label, hashtag, price tag, homework, exams are all measurable things I can think of at this moment.

I like to read, and I can spend eternity to read.. But I always make myself worried about, "so, when will you start working on your project?" Or, "when will you move your lazy butt to do some progress?"

These things, are not happiness!
But neglecting these things also made me unhappy at the end!

So yeah, enough is enough!
As long as I still smile everyday, it means that, life in general is happy.

Unhappy people do not always seem unhappy and happy people can be sometimes unhappy.

Happy and unhappiness, maybe, is a day and night, the balance amount of it will make us human; be sensitive, caring, grateful, and loving.

I know I still have to learn a lot about things like this and I am on my half-way through