Thomas Hardy once said, “Happiness is but an occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” Human beings aspire to achieve multiple goals like power, prosperity, love, and freedom, but usually, their ultimate endeavor is to attain happiness. Regrettably, we struggle to define happiness and determine whether an individual is truly happy. Other factors like wealth, education, success, popularity, and intelligence related to a specific person can be judged by various methods, but happiness remains a riddle to be solved. For example, we can be completely wrong if we try to gauge a person’s happiness by using their behavior as a litmus test because they may pretend to be happy just to hide their unhappiness.

The issue is further complicated by the fact that it is impossible to fully assess one’s own happiness. The only possible way to measure happiness is to evaluate others’ happiness without taking their behavior into consideration. Here are some tests that may help you judge others’ happiness.

Be Happy in Your Happiness
It is said that a happy person always feels happy in others’ happiness. But usually, this is not the case, as most of the time, others’ happiness is........

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