I Believe In Having A Belief

Truly believing in something means that you are willing to stand up for it and risk your life or suffer consequences because of it. In James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier’s My Brother Sam is Dead, Sam Meeker did just that. It showed a story where even though standing up for something that you believe leads to other conflicts, it’s worth it if you truly believe in it.

As human beings we are naturally wired to seek happiness wherever we can find it. When we don’t, we may enter a stage of anger, anxiety, or distress. That’s why it is our personal goal to look for happiness and preserve it once we acquire it. Many have explored ways to find what triggers this feeling of “happiness” and what we can do to keep it; nonetheless, the evidence found is hardly sufficient to make a public statement on how to find happiness. For this reason, most of the time we speculate what might provoke this feeling of contentment. “Happiness is a glass half empty,” an essay written by Oliver Burkeman, highlights the importance of happiness and discloses how we can find delight through unorthodox methods. The prime objective of this piece of writing is to inform the audience about the effect of happiness on their lives and how their usual attempts of becoming happier can sabotage achieving this feeling. Furthermore, he wants to promote the benefits of pessimism and describe how it can help us in the long run. The author utilizes pronouns, logos, and pathos in order to prove his point and draw the audience into his essay, in an attempt of making them reconsider the way they live their lives and adopt this new pessimistic way that would greatly boost their level of happiness.

Have you ever thought about what you believe in or where your belief comes from? Your beliefs come from your family, what you see on TV or what you here on the radio, and even yourself. Your beliefs reflect who you are and what type of person you are going to be.

Looking on the "brighter side" of things encourages positive attitudes as well as positive behavior. Shay Carl is a YouTube personality whom I've watched constantly for self motivation, he turned his life around through making the personal choice to wake up everyday and smile, and to look at himself in the mirror and flaunt his features instead of being ashamed to take his shirt off at the beach. At age 25 he weighed 350 pounds. Everyday he looked at himself with shame and disgust, he refused to allow positivity into his life because he believed there was nothing positive about himself that needed praise. One day he decided to stop the pity and to be happy even when he didn't want to, even when life would through massive curve balls at him, he was optimistic at all costs. He lost 200 pounds and had 5 kids. Carl posted daily videos of his progress in hopes to inspire other to follow in his footsteps. With over 4 million subscribes, he managed to create a unity of positive people with the same hopes as he did; to change their lives simply by choosing happiness. A positive attitude leads to a positive life. There are numerous aspects to being an optimist, and making the personal choice to be happy is only the first step to

If you want to achieve happiness in life, people should look on the bright side. And you want to look on the bright side because you do not want to spend the rest of your life thinking about that bad thing that happened to you.

Staying positive and trying to find the light in the darkness is a great, but not

There is nothing like the feeling of accomplishment after successfully achieving a goal or task without encountering failure. Many may say that happiness is success without having to deal with the problem of disappointment. But what if that idea of happiness is the exact opposite of what it really is? What if the true path to contentment is learning how to be a failure? In the article Happiness is a glass half empty, the author establishes the misconception of how happiness is portrayed by society through irony, antithesis, and by using analogies in order to get the reader thinking about the idea of how failure is the main step to reaching success.

In “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy,” Emily Esfahani Smith writes about the conflict between Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Happiness” and the culture today, which focuses on happiness in life rather than meaning. She introduces Viktor Frankl as a star medical and psychology student who survived the Holocaust in 1942. While Frankl was kept hostage in his camp, he was forced to find the good in life in order to survive. After being liberated, Frankl recorded his experience and what he learned in nine days, creating a best-seller in the United States. Smith explains that even though it has been concluded that Americans’ happiness is at an all-time high, the Center for Disease Control says that almost fifty percent of Americans have not found a purpose in life. Smith tells that bad mental health, self-esteem, and depression are less likely to be found in those who have found a pleasurable meaning in life. Happiness is associated with being a “taker”, while having a meaning life is associated with being a “giver” according to Smith. The downside to having a purpose for one’s life is the fact that he or she is usually more unhappy due to stress and worry than those who only strive for happiness, Smith explains. A study in 2011 proved that if someone has a negative circumstance occur in his or her lifetime, that event will give him or her more of a drive to find meaning in life rather than happiness. Smith concluded by linking these other sources with Frankl’s

While mainstream media and marketing would have you believe happiness is something you have to achieve outside of yourself, believers in manifesting know true happiness and peace comes from within.

As human beings we are naturally wired to seek happiness wherever we can find it. When we don’t, we may enter a stage of anger, anxiety, or distress. That’s why it is our personal goal to look for happiness and preserve it once we acquire it. Many have explored ways to find what triggers this feeling of “happiness” and what we can do to keep it; nonetheless, the evidence found is hardly sufficient to make a public statement on how to find happiness. For this reason, most of the time we speculate what might provoke this feeling of contentment. “Happiness is a glass half empty,” an essay written by Oliver Burkeman, highlights the importance of happiness and discloses how we can find delight through unorthodox methods. The prime objective of this piece of writing is to inform the audience about the effect of happiness on their lives and how their usual attempts of becoming happier can sabotage achieving this feeling. Furthermore, he wants to promote the benefits of pessimism and describe how it can help us in the long run. The author utilizes pronouns, logos, and pathos in order to prove his point and draw the audience into his essay, in an attempt of making them reconsider the way they live their lives and adopt this new pessimistic way that would greatly boost their level of happiness.

No document signed by the president, or even God for that matter, will change the minds of many of those how deem it fitting to look down amongst a race. No matter how much is taught in our history classes, it is never enough, because as Toni Morrison demonstrated in the book, there are many viewpoints and sides of our historical past that are ignored and not told to the mass for everyone to be able to understand and learn from such mistakes that are made then. Does that mean that there is no hope? I would not jump to such drastic conclusions, but I am a firm believer after taking this class that as long as certain individuals have the power to control what the media reports and what not to report, what are written in our history books for schools, and what literary works are allowed to be published and be out in stores for the mass to read, history will continue to repeat itself. That is not only here in America, but in many other countries how do not have the democratic freedom that America presents to its population. For example, Bassem Youssef, better known to many people as the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” brought lots of laughter through his “biting” political satire to many of his fans not only in Egypt, but those following him around the world. A man, who was a former heart surgeon, quit that profession and went on to start a political satire show in 2011 and showed no fear towards his nation’s government as he continuously bashed them and their work. Of course, not

What does it mean to believe in something? Well I believe it is something that you just know and go with it.I believe in respect for everyone. I feel that if everyone had even a small amount of respect for people the world would have peace. I also believe that if people are to show some respect that it just might make someone’s day better if they were having a rotten day where no one has been listening to them, or cutting them off when they were driving. I know what you're thinking what if you don’t like a person because of a certain way they treated you. My answer is for you to give them the kind of respect that you would want them to give you and hope that it might help you out in the future when you meet up with that person again.

I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in leprechauns, and fairies. I believe that if I jump off the Empire State Building, I just might fly. I believe I can be a ballerina or a firetruck when I grow up. I believe that if I flush myself down the toilet, I can swim with the fish in the ocean. I believe that I can dig a hole to China. I believe that I can make the world’s largest sandwich and eat it all, too. I believe in Miao. What is Miao? It is best explained through a story.

I believe in good karma. Some may say that it's just a coincidence that one gets a sort of reward after doing something good for others, but I am sure it's good karma paying us back for our actions.

All my life I wondered which of the thousands of religions, if any, is the right one to believe in. I’m sure most religious people have found their selves questioning if the God or higher power they’re devoting their time to is even real. I for one have done that more times than I can count. Today, there’s roughly 4,200 different religions in the world. That’s 4,200 different beliefs in the world, all believing in a different God or higher power. Some of us are extremely religious, following a certain religion, and some of us aren’t religious at all, with choosing to follow a more agnostic path. However, for those who are religious, how can you possibly know which one to believe in? Which god, if any of them are is real? Religion controls a good portion of people’s leisure as well. How can we possibly know which one to believe in? As of today, out of the 4,200 religions the top three religions are Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Christianity has 2.1 billion members, Islam with 1.5 billion members, and Hinduism with 851 million followers. Due to the fact that there’s over 4,200 different religions, I chose to only break down the top three religions in the world with the most followers because going through over 4,200 different religions would take an unreal amount of time. However, Out of those top three, I want to come to a conclusion on which one is the real deal, which one isn’t fake. In order to do that, I want to briefly explain about the