Reflection About Happiness

Happiness     Every person strives for a single cause, known to be happiness. There is a lot of ways we can interpret happiness, but is it really happiness? All our lives we do stuff that makes us happy or may meet what pleases us. Although, everybody has a different perspective of seeing what happiness means to them, it could be multiple stuff like; a dream job, materialist things, and helping others out etc. As in for me, the things that would make me would have to do with money even though I know

interpret happiness as what can now be defined as just externals. Externals are things that we value in life, but don’t control. Externals such as pleasure, wealth, honor, fame and societal status can aid in creating a good life however happiness itself cannot be achieved solely through this. I used to also believe that personal happiness meant that others would supply my happiness. According to Richard Taylor in his book“Virtue Ethics”, I was wrong in that belief I learned my happiness is up to me

In a TEDTalk by Robert Waldinger, happiness is seen differently manner than usually. The conclusion he gave is good relationships are the true path to happiness. Waldinger’s lecture gave the results of a 75-year old survey that he is currently in charge of as the fourth director. The study consisted of over 700 men, part being graduates from Harvard and the rest being poor Bostonian teenagers. In recent years and with tons of research and reports, the major takeaways they see are that good relationships

the teacher had decided to use the song “Happiness” from the Broadway musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. While it was not a very good rendition of the piece, it stayed with me throughout the years. For a long time I believed that happiness could be found in objects, in buying plastic things that I would throw away a year later. But the song’s catchy and meaningful lyrics stayed in the back of my mind, providing me with a gentle reminder that my happiness did not necessarily have to come from

stress affecting my daily life. Growing up was a bit of a challenge, since both of my parents were Colombians trying to adapt to the “American” way of life. I alway question happiness as I would play with the neighborhood kids, go to the supermarket or simply my everyday life. This year has allowed me to truly value what happiness is. My mother passed away in April of 2016. She was more than a mother, she was “my person,” as Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy would say. At the time when my mom was

Essay #3 - Definition     In my perspective Happiness is a positive emotion and feeling you may have but at times i ask myself “why isn't emotion included in the five senses?”. Happiness is a main item people need in order to be stable,happy, and to have a good life. The main question that many people ask themselves is “how can we chase or pursue happiness in life?” Happiness isn't something that comes falling down from the sky or that we see lying around on the ground… It's something we earn with

reflect on what Mark Kingwell wrote “… [comparing] happiness to a butterfly which, if pursued, always eludes your grasp, but which, if you sit quietly, may just land upon you” ( p. 531). I wonder if by sitting quietly, I would know when happiness arrives or if the quiet time is a time to reflect back on what made me happy. With my current work load, I have not had much time to sit quietly, which brings me to what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote about flow, in which he states, “when we are in flow, we

conversation of happiness because happiness and suffering are perceived to be polar opposite states of being. (Ricard 35). Scholars would argue that one is simply the absence of the other. Stoic philosophers emphasize the importance of enduring suffering, suggesting that suffering does not impact happiness outside of being an obstacle. However, other scholars would argue that suffering is involved in the integral process of achieving happiness implying that suffering does play a role in happiness and that

the desire to want more and often believe that by fulfilling those desires, it will increase their happiness. One problem is, people do not just live with simplicity in their lives, which is a direct reflection of their environment and societal factors that influence these continuous desires. Happiness is a very pertinent goal for people to reach. Today’s society has the misconception of happiness as being blinded by monetary and materialistic gains such as wealth, power, social media, and success

a contemporary understanding of happiness (a type of feeling), happiness to the Greeks was an “activity of soul” - a reflection of a person’s position in the community and mindfully acting to live in a good way (happiness as an action). In “What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service,” Adam Davis discusses a modern application of these “good” actions using the topic of service. Similar to Aristotle’s concern of the motivations behind human happiness and striving to reach a state of