A Crisis In My Mental History

John Staurt Mills, in chapter five of his autobiography , “ a Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward, (1909-14) argues that people should be able to find their happiness. He supports his claim by first saying that happiness is something to survive by, then he states you need to ask yourself if your are happy or not and try to find your inner happiness. Mill's purpose is to reach out to people that happiness is an important in order to make people live a happy life. He creates a serious tone for people who are trying to find happiness.

Everyone defines happiness differently, but everyone needs happiness. The book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse talks about how Siddhartha finds happiness through many ways. He leaves home and his friend, Govinda, to find enlightenment. He starves himself, he learns love, he even thinks of suicide… Fortunately, he meets a ferryman, who becomes his best friend, also his “teacher”, and helps him find the ultimate way to achieve enlightenment. Siddhartha abandons his relationships, money, and education which bring him happiness, and in the twenty first century, these still bring happiness as the essential steps to take.

To be depressed and joyless is just insupportable in today's society, happiness is becoming an argument in today's world. The article, “Happiness: Enough Already” by Sharon Begley, is to inform people that everyone undervalues the state of being happy; instead, they wanna push away the natural process of healing from melancholia. I believe this article can be directed to anybody who has suffered a maximum of happiness and sadness at least once, which almost every human being has or will experience once in their lifetime. The author makes valid statements throughout the article, an example would be everyone does not want to acknowledge that they are depressed, they either wanna “pop” a pill and forget about it or emotionally try to forget about it by just showing happy expressions. Even though everyone wants to have maximum happiness all the time, being depressed or heart

    Dan Goldberg, a keynote speaker and coach, once wrote “Happiness is a state of considerable pleasure and cheer... Contentment is different. It is a feeling of peace with one's self and one's life, an ease of mind and satisfaction with one's state of being.” We see many examples of different variations of this in both the real world and in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. We see characters who are happy but not content, characters who are content but definitely not happy and finally we see people that are fully bathed in both happiness and contentment.

True happiness comes only from one’s self and not from the help of others. True happiness comes from one accomplishing their personal life goals. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance”, he shows why not to conform to society and instead be individualized. He goes on to write “A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but

Happiness is many things to different people. People have referred to the pursuit of happiness for hundreds of years. In the book, My Antonia by Willa Cather, the main character, Jim Burden, quotes happiness as “…to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” Antonia Shimerda, the person who impacted Jim’s life directly and indirectly for all of his life would view happiness in a different way.

People often create their own happiness. My friend, Hannah, when she mad, she thinks and does things that are funny. Creating your own happiness can be beneficial. Cheerfulness comes from inside you shown these examples, of mice and men, Harry Potter, and my friend Emily all created their own happiness.

In Pig Happinesso, Lynne McFall writes five types of pig happiness. They are the “happy” idiot, the incompetent bottlecap collector, the deluded fool, the successful immoralist, and the impossible idealist. The author finally talks about that we can not use our own standard to judge others happiness are good or not, because happiness is just a report of someone’s own mind. I really agree with the author’s opinion, because I think happiness is actually “all the small things in life that makes us happy”. (Klopatra, 2012)

John Stuart Mills, in chapter five of his autobiography “A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward”, (1909-14), suggest that mankind can never find happiness when it is their goal, they can only find it when their minds are fixed on something unrelated to the topic. He supports his claim by first stating, that happiness is only found when we have our minds fixed on something else than our happiness, then he says that when we are conscious of our feelings and when we feel happiness that is when we feel the most misery and sorrow, and finally he suggests that happiness will come naturally as long as we don’t dwell on the feeling. Mill’s purpose is to express that we are not supposed to be focused on happiness, it will come just as naturally as the air we breathe, but if we do we will just find ourselves in a state of misery. He establishes a very informative serious tone for anybody anywhere.

Happiness is one of the most satisfying things a person can have if they want to be sane or even remotely content with life. The definition of happiness is “the state of being happy”, or “pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, etc.” (Google, 2015) All of these feelings are very rewarding for a person to live with on a daily basis, without it I don’t think many people would make it too far in life. You hear stories on the news of someone who tries to commit suicide or of a person who took someone else’s life and wonder what went wrong or where did life go wrong for them.

When you look up the definition of happy, it’s doesn’t give you a definition on how to be happy, it tells you that “happy” is a feeling. We all have our different views of happiness and we only know how to make ourselves happy, J.S. Mill’s had an extraordinary view on happiness, more than the Greek and Medieval philosophers, but I believe that no matter what someone tells you, on how to find happiness, it’s going to be on your own, on how to reach it. I would have to say that Modern philosophy is more logical to me than the others. For Mill’s, happiness comes from pleasure but still not everyone may agree. Throughout this essay, I will give you detailed descriptions of Greek, Medieval and Modern philosophers view on happiness, and how they

John Stuart Mills says if people should find happiness or if we have happiness in us already? I agree with John Stuart Mill's argument that we should be happy and appreciate everything. One piece of evidence that John Mill said was “Those only are happy who have their minds filed on some object other than their own mind.” In my opinion I think that's true. It’s true because people now days they only want to receive and not give back.

Someone once said, “Happiness is like chasing a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. You will never find it if you look for it.” John Stuart Mill’s autobiography, “A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” (1909) argues that in order to be happy, one must secure their mind on something other than their own happiness. Under the realization that one's happiness is only attained by not making it the direct end, Mill approaches this subject by first giving examples of what makes one happy and then continues to tell the reader why the route they are approaching happiness is insufficient to give contentment. His evident purpose is to inform the reader that one cannot pursue happiness through the enjoyments of life because once it is made a

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” -- Denis Waitley

If you are not happy, your thoughts and your emotions are not happy. Complaining, sadness, hopelessness, worry, jealousy, hatred, blame, doubt, disappointment, overwhelming, annoyance, and on and on it goes. All of these things contribute to the decline of your happiness and health in a big way.