The latest Yahoo! article claims that you can systematically fake yourself into happiness by following a few simple rules. It should be noted that I did not read the article but, rather saw it emcompassing 2/3 of my computer screen on my way to this site.
To fake your way into happiness seems a redundant term. Happines is the pure and soft joy that seems impossible to fake. Well, why would a person choose to fake happiness? Maybe it is a person who has long suffered the deep trenches of depression who wishes to feel the something that has long since been buried up. Or maybe it's the medically ill person who's been imprisoned by a matress and two sheets who wants to look on the brightside of things, hoping that it will give him/her a longer vegetable life.
Sure, happiness is easy to fake. I'm not sure I don't know of one person who hasn't faked happiness. It's sad, really, that an article has to be featured on the front page with an unhappy underlying message. I've interpreted that to mean that most of the world is unhappy. So what do we do? Well, according to Yahoo! we fake our way there.
That's terrible, it seems like it should be that people should find what makes them happy instead of being encouraged to fake it.
Although, at times, it does seem like being able to get away from depression would be good for people with mental problems, but it seems to me that it would be better for them to just have something that lets them focus or clear their mind until they can find what they are looking for.