What Really Makes Us Happy?

If you ask this question to ten people, the chances are that you'd be getting ten different answers. Which only goes to show you that there's not a single recipe for happiness. To some individuals happiness mean winning the lottery to end all lotteries. Enabling them to live a life of luxury and wealth. Then eventually moving on to bigger and better things, like living in the famous mansion somewhere in Beverly Hills. This way they can hobnob with their celebrity neighbors, and play golf over the weekend. As if this is not enough, they go on ahead and develop their own reality TV shows, starring none other than themselves, of course. But funnily enough to some other folks, those who live and die by the words: Money doesn't buy happiness. Happiness to them could be just as simple as looking at 'a crowd of golden daffodils', to quote a very famous line of a poem by William Wordsworth. So what really is happiness? And how do you get it? Do some people have a genetic predisposition towards happiness? Is there such a thing as a happy gene? Is there a scientific explanation to this giant smile that breaks on your face every time you see your high school crush walking down the hallway on your way to Geometry class? It has been know that endorphins, (a hormone that is responsible for making us kind of happy) induces a certain feeling of euphoria. This is the happy buzz that you get when you eat tons and tons of chocolate. Ask any chocoholic who has landed his or herself in rehab, and they'll attest to this happening. Endorphins is also released when you are exercising. It is the chemical considered to be responsible for the phenomenon called: runner's high. Runner's high is the feeling of exuberance that runners get when they have been aggressively running after a certain amount of time. Due to this continuous exertion their bodies release endorphins. Endorphins have also been known to elevate our moods. But is this small feeling of gladness can really be enough to be called happiness? Well let's see