Nope,I meant glücklich, Übereil. It's a very personal and individual feeling. And I don't think that glücklich is stable and lasts long. A healthy person, never having survived a severe disease will not be able to cherish and enjoy regained strength. A person never having lost eyesight can't appreciate its coming back.
I do think that your and my definition of Glück is not the same though. As for richness => don't care a fig for that. As long as I can support myself and have enough for my daily needs, I don't need riches (depends on how you determine riches though). If this involves a high consumer rate => nope, not my gain in being glücklich. I come from a family who was quite wealthy and I didn't see my parents being happy BECAUSE of the money, even though they had a lot of luxury.
Healthy? Sure, I'd like my paralysis rest go away, but it doesn't, so I live with it. And I can remember the time where I suffered under that severly - I'm happy I regained 90%. It was a struggle, and I reset my life priorities due to that incident. If I never had that paralysis, I would have never been able to appreciate my regain.
My criterias => feeling myself, being aware of my needs and being able to fulfill them. And these are small things. The way I feel my criterias fulfilled I already described in my former post. And criteria, the most important for me are ... solitude, independence and time for myself. Not riches, not lovelife, not making a career, not the stuff that seems to make you happy. So, I say again => happiness is an individual and fleeting feeling, wonderful to feel and to know, I'm home within myself. Your inner home is not mine - but maybe this book can help you:
Bernard Benson: The path to happiness
it describes in a very simple way that you can only find happiness within yourself, if you are curious, openminded and have the willingness to take everything as unique (even flowers <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> ) He was a pilot, worked for the weapons industry, left all that and turned to Buddhism Kiya
