Importance Of Happiness In My Life

My passion for sports began at an early age. I began to play basketball at the age of five and have been

One of my worlds is basketball. Basketball means a lot to me. This physical sport not only keeps me healthy and fit, but also adds great joy and brings the world of competition that I never knew before to me. For example, when I run back and forth across the court, I get the sixty minutes of exercise a day I need without realizing it. But, most importantly, while I'm playing this extra-curricular sport, a feeling comes to me that I've never known before; the feeling of competition. When I shoot a shot, it matters a lot to me if I make it or not. I actually make an attempt to winning the game, which I don't usually try. My world of basketball really changes my life and adds much to my life experiences, and whomever I play with, the game improves my connection with them.

I’ve never wanted anything as bad as I wanted this. I’ve never put this much effort into anything as I did this. I prepared myself for this one event that would be a big milestone for me. Seventh grade volleyball tryouts. Volleyball was a family sport and my first love. I wasn’t obsessed over the Jonas brothers or Hannah Montana; I was madly in love with the game of volleyball. How it had a physical strain as well as a mental strain. Volleyball isn’t thought of as a mental game, but there’s a lot of thought that goes into it. The footwork that, if not done properly, could throw off your whole performance in a set and cost the team valuable points. Constantly watching over your teammates and learning how they play as well as keeping up with what you're

I started playing basketball in second grade, and found a love for the game right away. However, I had no idea how much basketball would impact me through out my life. As I aged, my skill level and athleticism developed drastically. In addition, my passion and motivation grew indefinitely. With that being said, I have let many people dictate the way I play, but soon, I used them to push me positively, instead of negatively. Thus, basketball is an important component to my life.

My parents are from Mexico, they came when they were just teenagers. They found work wherever they could. I hear stories from my father about the first pair of shoes he ever had in America where some Chuck Taylor All-Stars, and the time he ever had a hamburger at whataburger and how he could finish it because of how massive it was. My mother tells me stories of her childhood. She talks about how her and her other siblings would work day after day in the fields they owned, how she learned how to be self dependant before the age of 10. When we go back to Mexico, everyone in the whole town knows. I can’t go anywhere without someone asking if i’m Miguel and Juana's’ kid.

What I remember most about those days was the hard times. Because of WWI, times were difficult. There was a strict decline in employment and the majority of people living in Waxahachie lived in poverty. After my husband was killed, I became one of those people. The day he died was the day that my most extreme struggles began.

It could be said that most of people all over the world prefer to live happily. Therefore, two questions including what happiness is and how to be happier are usually attracted these people to answer by themselves. These answers, consequently, influence their thoughts, activities, and their lives significantly. In fact, it could be true that there are a number of happiness definitions and a large quantity of factors contributing to people’s happiness. In recent researches, one of these factors is money (Dunn, Gilbert & Wilson 2011; Aaker, Rudd & Mogilner 2011). Some point out that money can cause people happy; others, however, think that it may not. Happiness, in more details, could assume to be people’s sustainable satisfaction. In other words, it is not only a mere satisfaction but also a deep pleasurable feeling (Mark 2017; King 2016). For this definition, money could partly cause human’s happiness. Although money might sometimes determine happiness in term of both physical aspects and a high level of social connections, humans’ sustainable pleasure could not depend on money, and money might sometimes relate to the reasons of unhappiness.

As singer-songwriter, Lana Del Rey, once said, “When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.” Love and happiness are two qualities that people seek in life; they are correlating factors in people’s lives, like mine, for example. In other words, these two qualities are part of the circle of life and many believe that having the two factors in their life will lead to a good life.

I tell myself the encouraging words by author George Sand, “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” I wish I could change, my pass an be able to grow up in the same household as my siblings.

“Who am I?” is the question that we all ask ourselves. Are we brave? Are we happy? Are we risk takers? There are so many questions we ask and so many factors that determine who we are. It’s our personality and beliefs that make us who we are. Events that happen in our lives changes who we are whether we realize it or not. It could be a birthday or graduating high school but in my case, what changed me and made me who I am as a person is the day my aunt had passed away.

Growing up, my family has always been there to provide for me. Now, I am in college away from the nest but never far enough that I still cannot fly back home. A year or so after graduation, I expect to be living on my own, without the protective wing of my parents overshadowing me. In order for me to achieve this freedom, I will need a steady job and a place to live. Simple! However, for me to achieve a happy life on my own, I will need to do a lot more than just make a living. Achieving happiness and contentment in life is not easy; the steps needed to cultivate joy in my life that are found in the paragraphs below are going to be hard but worth it. I would like to ensure happiness in the future by keeping my body in the best physical condition possible, working at a job that brings me joy, and loving a woman with all of my heart.

Would you be willing to let go of your deepest darkest fears to pursue the honorable? According to Seneca, “For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?

Happiness is a bliss and it is something that we should cherish. It is easier said than done, but being happy can result in a lot of positive outcomes in your life. Being lighthearted does not necessarily mean that something good has to happen to you, it can happen in your community and around the world. Within the individual, we can achieve happiness by being content with what we have. The community can make you feel gleeful by whom you are surrounded with, and what influences are around in that environment. Happiness around the world is a sense of everyone coming together and forming happiness.

In life, we tend to try to please people and make them as happy as possible even though we sacrifice the things that truly make us happy. I, like many others in the world, have experienced many occasions where I have sacrificed my own happiness just to make other people happy, or just to see them smile a genuine smile. No one else can make you happy in your life. Intimate relationships and friendship will often offer temporary sanctuary from things like your fears, insecurities, and past experiences that weren’t particularly positive, but if we want to get over these things we must face them all alone.

Early morning, birds chirping and the crisp, cool air that glides through the windows awake the whole city. The smell of the bloomed flowers in the garden refreshes, and relaxes your whole state of mind. Sitting comfortably on the wooden porch, drinking hot brewed coffee and listening to the sounds of nature washes all your worries away. With a clear mind the shining sun, that squeezes between the smoky clouds reminds you of a new day. Or perhaps a hot cleansing bubble bath, filled with a layer of surfactant lavender scented foam, relaxing your body after a long day of work. In both cases, the relaxing, refreshing routines both exhibit one of the many forms of happiness. Happiness is the state of being happy. Happiness, an important part of the world today because happiness is really all we've got, this benefits not only our personal lives, but our societal lives as well, in this state of mind we can create a more peaceful, energetic, and compassionate world.