Is happiness relative?

Is happiness relative?

Lynn Ianni (Psychotherapist) gives expert video advice on: How do you define happiness?; Does everyone have the ability to be happy?; What are the essential ingredients of happiness? and more...

I don't think that you can compare your own personal level of happiness with someone else's because we are like snowflakes and we are so different. It is impossible to compare. Well I am happier than you are on some level. It is just too individualized. I think it can be relative in terms of your own life and you can see periods in your own life where you had times when you were happier than others. Certainly situational factors can enter into play: Lifestyle changes over decades or processes that one goes through as they grow older, as they grow up, as they get healthier, as they become ill. All those factors are relevant. So it is relative internally but again, outside or externally, I don't know that you can compare and contrast.