Flow: An optimal state of human experience in which individuals are fully engaged in creative endeavors, experiencing fulfillment, happiness, and well-being.
Life satisfaction: A sense of well-being and may be assessed in terms of mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved goals, self-concepts, and self-perceived ability to cope with daily life.
I looked for information about these words, I chose those definitions because I agree with that ones, I mean in terms of psychological stability in order to reach happiness in the future; relations with others, achieved goals, well-being, among others, are concepts we have to face and solve them of the best way we can.
In my opinion, they are considered important because they are a part of our lifes. Reaching happiness is the purpose of human beings, everyone wants to be happy and everyone has a concept of what does happiness mean, the idea is to get an optimal state, do not feel pissed off for problems or issues that have solutions.
These concepts have been applied in surveys, magazines, and jobs, to name but a few, to consider the productivity of the human being, for that reason magazines, tv shows, among others, try to sell us a kind of "flow". Obviously human beings are going to consider the better job in terms of money to reach happiness, nevertheless, jobs persuade them with more benefits than other jobs, selling the happiness for work.
In my case, I think about a concept of happiness, maybe it is similar than other, maybe not, but my idea of happiness involves money, unfortunately without it, we cannot be happy, it does not matter if we have good things to do, if we want to do them really good, we have to spend money. Nevertheless, there are cases we have no use money (or less than other times), I recall when I was younger and I went to a concert, I lived lots of things in that week, I did not have much money, but I spend a great time with friends, and then in the gig, it was the happiest moment in my short life, even though I had to pay for the ticket, but in that selling it was not include the greats moments with my friends.
If there is someone who inspires me in terms of having a positive attitud, that person is my girlfriend, I do not know how she can be such a positive girl, she is always with a great smile facing the life, I think i'm learning how to face reality and common problems with her, i'm trying to do not be so negative or realistic, i want to find the middle, my life satisfaction.