Happiness Cannot Be Taken Away

Lazy fall days, colorful leaves, cooler weather, birds singing, frogs croaking, crickets chirping, relaxing to the sounds of the outdoors. Waves of water crashing upon each other, fishing, telling stories around a campfire, making s’mores, memories with family and friends; this is what happiness is to me. Happiness is in the eye of the beholder, what brings happiness to one person may not bring happiness to another person. When I think of the word happiness, I think of descriptive words like Contentment, enjoyment, satisfaction, delightfulness, something that makes a person smile. I have always looked at the word happiness as a feeling, an action, never have I thought of happiness as an overall affect. However, it is a proven fact, that happiness can affect the over-all health and longevity of human life. Happy people live longer than those that are lonely, stressed, or depressed.

Happiness? Is happiness the best good? In book 1 chapter 7 Aristotle brings up the topic happiness and is it the best good for humans. He says “But presumably the remark that the best good is happiness is apparently something [generally] agreed, and we still need a clearer statement of what the best good is. Perhaps, then, we shall find this if we first grasp the function of a human being” (1097b22-25 Aristotle). That statement is saying the main function of Humans is to look for happiness. Aristotle thinks happiness is to broad of an assumption and that there are several types of happiness that branch off of happiness its self.

Based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Happiness Revisited” People have many different points of view about how to achieve happiness, it can be based on the type of life one is having, an experience, a way of living, culture, and religion. Happiness can be defined in many ways but happiness is not something we find or get just by magic. In “Happiness Revisited” by Csikszentmihalyi, the author emphasizes that “It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.” And just as he stays that happiness is when someone is involved in everything that happens in live either good or bad, one example that I think Csikszentmihalyi will describe as an optimal experience

Happiness is the one thing we all seek unfortunately not everyone finds. In A Brave New World the author, Aldous Huxley, uses two different types of characters to portray someone as happy and someone who is not. The State uses different forms of Soma, technology, and everything but the truth to make their citizens “happy”. This book does suggest that happiness is all that really matters in life and that you should seek happiness in your own way and not through someone else.

As in today, written in 1931 and published the following year. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a utopian and anti-utopian novel. In the series, the author questions the distinctive values of 1931 generation, by the use of satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in today’s-American society have been taken to extremes of futuristic advances. Community, identity, stability are words that compromise the slogan of a society. The community defines that varies individuals must work together to maximize greatest contentment rather than relinquishing their happiness. Which artificially implies idea of identity, that every dependent has, are classified by certain ranks alphas,

The Misconception of Happiness In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, he examines a Utopian society in which the people disregard real emotions, by eliminating any discomforts. The government of this society attains stability by enforcing specific regulations such as the use of drugs and social activities. The individual plays no role in this society as well, instead, a person’s identity is eliminated in order to feel a false sense of happiness. Huxley throughout his novel questions whether this type of happiness is worth all of the destruction of the individual. However, by introducing his audience to John, who is considered a savage to this society, it reveals the significance of individuality.

The Merriam Webster dictionary describes happiness as a “state of well-being and contentment. Though there are multiple things that can make one happy. The Happiness Myth, by Jennifer Hecht and the article, Which One of These Food Will Stop Cancer? (Not so Fast) by Gina Kolata both discuss the category of bodies. Hecht has a whole section of the book dedicated to this, describing that when it comes to taking care of our bodies we often think of the extreme or nothing at all. Meanwhile, Kolata’s article talks about people who change their diets because they believe it can protect one from cancer and that even though there is little to no scientific proof it actually does. However, whether these measures make people happy is ideally up to the person. Therefore, if eating healthy or working out makes a person feel like they have control over themselves then who is to say that is not happiness.

The Brave New World depicts a society where happiness is completely necessary, and any other feelings are against the social norms. People take a drug called soma to stabilize a constant mood of happiness. Soma allows the people to feel nothing but the feeling of happiness at all times. In this society, human beings are factory made and mass-produced. The human beings are produced just as society wants them to, to conform to the views of this utopia.

In a nation where happiness can be achieved by other means, rather than expressing emotions. In a place where everybody is alike, how do people progress in a society of similarities? The civilization in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley multiple twins are born from one embryo, creating a community of similar citizens. Even after they are born into the world, everybody fits into a category that supports the community. Everything has downsides even happiness.

The dog starts off as a stray mutt named Toby. After growing up a stray, he is taken by a woman where he is placed in a pen; with approximately twenty other dogs. There, the woman, Senora, takes care of him, but then he is captured by dog control and put to sleep because he was injured. “ Of all the things I’d ever done, making Senora laugh seemed most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.” (Cameron 54). In his first life the dog’s only purpose was to make his owner laugh. No matter that it was a small sweet gesture from the dog, it made his owner smile.

Everyone thought that our leaders were infallible, but they were wrong. Our civilization was at its zenith, and all the citizens were filled with euphoric thoughts about what the future held for us, happiness was ubiquitous nearly everyone was happy except for the ones who were different. The different ones were never seen on the surface because they were kept in cages to work for the government as their drones. No ones knows about this only the government and the few who find out and are estranged by society for their views. Over time, the civilization started to regress. There was happiness, but nothing was being done and technological advance halted and the people became more and more uneducated and ignorant because most didn't go to school

read this story is because it is a really good story that is being narrated by the dog point of view. That

The person’s genetics and childhood or the person’s family and culture are things that influence a person’s happiness. Happiness is a mindset that is created by a person’s surroundings and their origins.

It should go without saying that one will go through life having many experiences, and more specifically pleasures, we strive to experience these pleasures owing to the fact that we think that these pleasures will make us happy. The majority of, if not all of our existence is dedicated to the pursuit of things that ultimately we think will ensure our happiness. Whether we want to go to college to earn a degree or spend all of your time exploring the world, we do what we do because in the long or short term, we assume that our actions will accomplish our goal of happiness. The pleasures that might normally be considered as the pleasures that are quintessential to exist, or things that are more typical for us to strive for, would likely

When you hear the word happiness, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of material possessions like designer clothes and accessories, the newest iPhone with the highest possible storage capacity, or a shiny red supercar? Do you think the amount of money you have or your current financial status has an effect on how happy you are? Plenty of college students, myself included, would associate happiness with possessing items like these or just having a lot of money in general. In today’s society, one common belief about social class is that the richer and more money or things that one has, the happier this will make them. This belief is reinforced by countless advertisements we see and hear everywhere, whether that be on