The difference between life satisfaction, happiness, well-being, and quality of life

• Happiness: the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile

• Immediate and brief moments

• Well-being: the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity (or just feeling well in general)

• More strictly defined and based on specific factors, more objective and less customizable

• Quality of life: a measure of satisfaction / well-being that is linked to living conditions

CREATOR'S TAKE

Happiness, well-being and satisfaction in life are all different terms related to each other that represent different ideas. Life satisfaction can be seen as an assessment of one's life, an overall assessment of feelings and attitudes about one's life, or the degree to which a person positively assesses the quality of their entire life. The main idea is that it is about a person's general feelings about their life and how satisfied they are with the way it is. The concept of ​​life satisfaction is quite broad and involves many factors and measures which are dependant on the individual. To add, life satisfaction influences our health, well-being, happiness, and the way we enjoy life.

Since living life to the fullest depends on the satisfaction of life, it is inherently impossible to fully attain. It is natural for us to think about the different possibilities, outcomes and consequences of our decisions, and since life never stops, it is impossible to go back in time to change what was done to become what it could have been. It is rare for an individual to fully achieve everything they dream of and live to their full potential. The more you do something, the more you get stuck in the same lifestyle. No matter how many goals or dreams you reach, and even if you do the things you want to do, our mind will always think about what else is possible. This makes living life to the fullest an ideal that everyone strives for, but cannot achieve.

On the other hand, this does not mean that you don't have any control over your life satisfaction. It entirely depends on how you deal with your life and how you perceive it. Life is about deciding, learning, adapting, changing, experimenting and creating. The goals we set for ourselves in life may never lead to guaranteed, absolute fulfillment, making it impossible to live life to the fullest, but that does not mean that we cannot have an overall high level of life satisfaction. Although we will always wonder what our lives could have been, what matters is what we decide to do with how it is now.