Happiness And Happiness : My Path To Happiness

Have you ever truly sat and considered what makes you truly happy? Often times, people answer directly with the response of money. We say this without deeply considering all that we have to be grateful for. Happiness is not achieved through wealth instead through experiences, the family we love, and the nature that surrounds us, literature has created a great impact upon the ideals we consider to create our happiness.

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “Happiness is when you want to think what you think what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Describing happiness can seem as ambiguous as accomplishing and achieving it. Without help, we as different individuals all have the same want---- happiness. However, the satisfaction in life can not be defined through just one definition or study. The concept of happiness and it’s sources have been defined through religious, psychological and abstract ground. People in general are happier when they are around a set of people that uplifts them, because psychologically their happiness is affected by their environment.

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.

Following Malcolm Gladwell’s idea on “the story of success”, Sonja Lyubomirsky put happiness to the test. Happiness has many great advantages that some may not think about. Studies shown happiness leads to stronger relationships, higher work performance, and even living longer with many health benefits.

As we all enjoy our delicious Dinner, the topic of Happiness is brought up to our dining table. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, author of “The Sources of Happiness” starts to converse about happiness. He mentions how people should be grateful and happy with what they have and not with what they wish or desire, since that’s not what makes a person’s happiness. As the conversation continues, he claims that happiness is within one’s mind and not with natural phenomena. In addition, he discusses how money doesn’t build a person’s happiness. On the other hand, Gretchen Rubin, author of “July: Buy Some Happiness” claims how “money can’t buy happiness, but it helps contribute to your happiness.” (Rubin 293). Gretchen Rubin

The authors of the article believe that there are three things that form happiness as a whole, “pleasure (or positive emotion); engagement; and meaning” (Seligman 540). In order to increase happiness, there needs to be a way to increase these three constituents in the lives of people. With this being said most people in the world cannot increase all three constituents, but a person can live a full life when “A person uses all three routes to happiness” (541). The main goal of people is to increase all three paths or constituents because through living a full life a person can have more satisfaction. This article gives many interesting facts about happiness and gives a very direct definition of what happiness is. This definition of what happiness is might match what some other people might think, but it cannot satisfy the definition that every one in the world

Happiness may not be easy to find for everyone. Some people may find it in the simplest things. We may be able to find it in other people, our own experiences and even our possessions. We can experience joy from entertainment, our careers and our successes. The problem is that those external things are not reliable

In search of happiness for millennia, humanity has sought refuge in superficial objects, money, relationships, and nature. However, no one has much been able to define how to truly achieve happiness. It has been defined as achievable by being at peace with your inner self, or just being without worry for the rest of your days. Many Greek philosophers have added to the discussion as well as many Eastern based religions, as well as modern literaries, all claiming to know how to reach happiness.

Happiness is an emotion that can be practiced by anyone, just like all other emotions we have. There is a kind of expectation that comes attached with the term happiness, that people get intrigued, when asked the question, “are you happy?” .Happiness cannot be achieved when we want it but it can be found in unexpected moments or situations. This happens entirely when the choice is made by a person to be happy or not in that particular moment .Happiness cannot be measured in terms of success or money. It is something that is cherished in everyone’s mind as a result of constant choices made to think positively, even when we are surrounded by negativity.

What is Happiness? In my opinion the simple definition word happiness is happy in your life. According to survey of Earth Colombia University the world’s happiest country was Finland which has a ratio of 7.6 on a scale of 10. On other hand least was Sub-Saharan Africa, which scored 3.4 out of 10. “Every soul on earth desires for unconditional happiness” (Bruce, p.g.7.). However, it is a subjective concept that has diverse interpretation when asked to different peoples. There is no measure of happiness that would answer standard of the people. The key to happiness is based on marriage and family, money and freedom.

Americans constantly find themselves desiring happiness. However, what is happiness and how does someone achieve it? According to Webster-Dictionary.org, happiness is “An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment”. Every American seeks happiness, but achieving it is the struggle. Americans search for fleeting happiness, therefore, we often find contentment in mediocre living.

According to “ Happiness Is The Key” (October,2015), 60% of women in The United States of America said that happiness is something that people can not control and 40% of men, also in The United States of America, said that people are the ones who choose to be happy. But what is happiness? Happiness is a balanced state of mind where a person is satisfied, joyful, grateful, and has a great spirit. This paper argues

All of us have common interest for happiness and love. We all have our own destiny on how to discover it in our lives. In this book, we will know the factors of happiness and our conditions of well- being- our genuine wealth. It will answer some questions such as, what makes life worthwhile and how might we measure happiness and relate it to economics.

    It was a bright sunny day and you could hear the birds chirping in the distance. Happiness didn’t get as much sleep as she would’ve liked but she still woke up with a smile, stretching out her arms and legs ready to start her productive day. She got out of bed, brushed her hair, got dressed and made her bed. As she got ready to start her day she said to herself “It’s a beautiful day to be alive.” She went to her mom Joyful’s room and asked, “Mom would you like me to make you some breakfast?” Her mom replied with a big smile, “Actually that would be lovely, some eggs and toast would be nice.” After, she went to her dad Laughter, who was watching a comedy show and asked “Dad would you like me to make you some breakfast?” He responded giggling saying “Yes, that would be delightful.”

Happiness, has long been an estate that huge numbers of individuals endeavor to create a path, that seeks to find it. Extensive research, surprisingly enough, does not have definitive answers on the concept of what makes one happy. As a matter of fact; there are as many attempts to define happiness, as there are the many scholars, theologians, psychologist and philosophers, curious enough to research it. Many¬¬; are unsuccessful in comparison to the ready definition of non-scholars and sources; such as Google and Wikipedia. A more intriguing and specific aspect of the definition of happiness, asks the question; can money buy it, or rather, is happiness determined mainly by external circumstances?