The Happiness Experiment

I read some Aristotle today. I hear he learned from Plato and Socrates. He has some good ideas. He says happiness resides in virtue. I thought hard about this and it seems reasonable. I guess moral people should be happy. I can see how would ethics provide the discipline to reach your goals.

I guess the only way to find out is through experimentation. I could do that. I remember experimenting in High School. That seemed easy enough. I experimented with girls, friends, parents and myself. I never found happiness though. Maybe my virtues were out of place?

Aristotle also said some things about relationships being pretty important too. I guess they have a place. I've never really understood the connection though. I like being alone. Alone is happiness now. Philosophers would disagree. Psychologists would tell me it has a lot to do with my childhood. Between the two I'm sure I would become confused. Trust does not come easy to me. I doubt I would believe them anyway. I wonder if I should worry about this?

I'm sure there is a way to test this concept. I will have to think about it. I bet it will be pretty hard to do. There are so many books on this subject. Too many. I like reading Aristotle though. He makes me feel good. He might say that I was feeling happy. I can't be sure I would agree. Maybe there is a book that will teach me how to test things.

This is hard. Searching for happiness. Thinking. Maybe I'll just go to sleep now.