The Pursuit Of Happiness That Has Become An Obligatory

Happiness has always been one of the most important values for human being. Happiness is not thought to be achieved only by one’s own efforts in ancient period and themiddle ages. Finding happiness is also related to the grace of God or to being a bit a lucky. There has been a break on this issue in the Enlightenment period and thought that all people are entitled to be happy in this world has been emerged and gained wide currency. At this stage, while becoming happy is perceived as a responsibility that is only allied with human will, happiness has become an obligation. Although,main subjectivewas initially happiness of all people in this world, this situation paradoxically resulted in the increase of people’s unhappiness. It is fairly normal for people to care about their own and others happiness, but hoping that everyone always becomes happy and considering it as a right and a responsibility inevitably lead to frustration and unhappiness. With the help of science and technology it is possible to prevent and reduce some sufferings, but it is not possible to remove ultimately the sufferings from the earth. On the other hand the universe or God has no duty to make people happy