Quote Originally Posted by Shana View Post
It's easy to say when we define happiness as a "hit of dopamine". But nothing is so easy as that. May be as you say we are driven by the need to be get that hit of dopamine. But isn't happiness the thing we are looking for forever in life? As far as I know, even love is simulated by Dopamine. Just because of that, we don't ignore it. Had we accepted happiness or pleasure as just the work of dopamine, every one of us would have become a drug addict by now. May be we are a kind of addicts to that chemical. But we're definitely not wasting our time. The incessant search in our minds to be happy is what drives our life. Without that, human race would have been extinct centuries ago.
Well said Shana, As you said we are kind of addicted to our hormone changes. But, sure it's not just the chemical reaction that make us happy. Happiness is something more than these chemical reactions. it's a pure feeling of bliss.