There were two ants and a stack!

I'm sitting on my couch reminiscing. Questions pop up and soon I find myself incapable of answering them all. Questions first pop up at comprehensive rate just to speed up to speed comparable to the speed of light. As I try to win the one race that I'm doomed to lose I sharpen my thinking, think faster, better. Everything stops and I'm back from my daydream. I was trying to answer two things at once and while both were easy. They became to hard in transaction. I could've done both... if I wasn't so eager to have them both answered as soon as possible. Today I realized that my mind is racing from time to time. Sometimes I simply need to slow down. Sometimes I feel like if I'm thinking fast, trying to outrun myself. The most logical solution is most often the one that should be applied to the problem. I'm going to start right away.

What is the best solution to the following question?

"How do I pass my exam?"

Well the most logical answer is...
Read, read and read some more and when you've done that repeat this line!

I have been thinking about happiness as well. It's not that I'm not happy or anything it's just the fact that happiness is resting in our own hands that has triggered me to think about it. So what is happiness and how in the seven seas of Azeroth do we control this tricky thing.

Well Wikipedia says following on the manner:
Researchers have found that about 50% of one's sadness depends on one's genes. This is shown by studying identical twins and learning that their happiness is 50% correlated even when growing up in different houses. About ten to fifteen percent is a result of various measurable variables, such as socioeconomic status, marital status, health, income, and others. The remaining 40% results from actions that individuals deliberately engage in for the purpose of becoming happier.
So genes are involved and that didn't surprise me to much. Economics, health, marital status etc. etc. isn't all to strange either. But 40% that is dependable on your own actions isn't a small number. 40% of your happiness is in your own hands so if you feel sad and cant change your income, health or marital status right away then the only thing that you can change is the way you think. Positive thinking and setting up goals are factors that possibly can increace your happiness level!
Finding some greater meaning can also help increase the level of happiness.

Another is that our brain is the single thing that controls our happiness. The thing here is that as long as we do things that give good long-term benefits we will be happy. Also if we avoid stressful things and things that wouldn't benefit us our brain awards us with happiness. This sounds absurd and unlikely but after reading some material regarding this theory I've found this the most likely. Also our brain reacts to things that are bad for us by "punishing" us with sadness.

The question that comes up after this is probably. "Alcohol is dangerous for me in the long run so why am I happy after some 3-4 beers?" The answer here would be that beer targets same preceptors in brain as the brain itself does when it is rewarding us. Alcohol stimulates brain towards a more happy state and the chemicals that are needed to be happy are flowing trough our system. Long term problem here is that we can get addicted to Alcohol and I think that the main reason for this is that we need Alcohol to be "normal". The state of mind in an alcoholic person is that he/she is so used to the high level of chemicals that control our mood that in order to work properly they need to refill doses of alcohol in their body all the time. As the time goes they need more and more alcohol to satisfy the growing need of chemicals. It's a downward spiral and it can only end by death or stop drinking.
Hmm there so much more I would like to write right now but I feel that some of the things above might be wrong since all of this except for the part that I took from Wikipedia are assumptions made by me. I hope you've had some good reading and feel free to leave comments. I might be wrong, but as I wrote feel free to comment and correct my mistakes. I will go and read some now and tomorrow I'm going to exercise.

One last thing that I found interesting is that exercise can raise our Endorphin levels and consequently raise our happiness level. So if your feeling bad go out and run!

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."