The Importance Of Happiness In My Life

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.

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett. In my entire life, there are a few words to describe who I am: happy, positive, hard-working, kind and generous. Because of this, I have always wanted to be a doctor, who I believe can use all these traits in everyday life; also, it always been my hobby of mine to help people, which is one of the reasons why I love to volunteer. There are many aspects in my life my family, my friends, my ethnicity, my beliefs, and the media that shaped me to be the person I am today, and the person that I hope to be in the future.

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.

Life for me has always been making mistakes and learning from them. I’ve always been open to different experiences in life but I do have some boundaries. I know that everyone’s life in this world is different than every other person. I have been really close to my mom my whole life. I talk to her for hours and share my feeling, and tell her how my day goes. Whenever I had a problem, I knew that my mom would fix it for me, and once I tell her about it everything is going to be okay. I perpetually respect my parents and want to appreciate them for they do for me. I am really lucky that I have parents. Now as I became a teenager, I continuously thought that I would never change, my life would never change, I will always stay the same.

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.

Do humans think that happiness is an attainable attribute? How does one achieve happiness in their life? In The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia written by Samuel Johnson, the protagonist, Rasselas, struggles to find what happiness is and if it is possible in his luxurious life. Many other texts such as “The Wife’s Lament”, William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, and The Imperfect Enjoyment written by John Wilmot depict that happiness is something sought after but end up with unhappy and unresolved conclusions. This cumulative theme of the concept of too much solitude and seclusions can negatively affect happiness one is trying to achieve in life.

I believe anyone has the ability to change anyones mood. I believe one person can make me feel awful about myself. I believe one person has the power to fill me with joy, and laughter. I believe one person can ruin my day with just a couple awful words. I believe one person impacts another. At a young age I realized how much happiness one person brought me. When I was nine years old I then realized one person can also fill you with sadness.

Arguably, I am the dumbest smart person I know. One moment, I am on the top of the world leading an organization of more than 800 members; the next, I have my head stuck inside the freezer for 15 minutes in a lost cause to retrieve an ice cream bar. My life is full of ups and downs and I try to do my best, but often events escalate to the worst of scenarios. Looking at it closely, I see that my life resembles a sort of ongoing comedy. I can almost hear the powers that be, laughing hysterically at my follies. While the fates pay me visits, I seek to know why my life is full of laugh track moments.

from then on my path was set. I had made my decision, I would run. Throughout my childhood I was always the short one. I could not say I was not athletic, but you would not see my making plays and scoring goals. I was always hesitant, worried for all of their safeties, worried for my own safety. Needles to say football was not my sport, but we will come back to that. I played almost every sport I could think of, I played Basketball, I played Baseball, I played Soccer, I played football, and almost every track event that they let me in. sadly, I wasn’t very good at any of them.

Buddhists believe happiness is being able to realize that no matter what you think about the circumstances that define your life, you are already good, whole and complete. It’s about recognizing the inherit potential in your mind. Happiness is being awakened to the full potential of his own nature. People have to change their mindset in order to achieve happiness for example someone who suffers from anxiety may have a attack they can believe they are having a nervous breakdown or you can confront your thoughts and fears and realize have that you’re a having a nervous breakthrough. By controlling your thoughts you are able to control your outcome of situations. Happiness is awareness and the feeling of complete and whole.

Working to mold my body into the best shape possible is necessary to ensure longevity in my life and prepare me for obstacles down the road. For example, when I was waiting for my friend on the basketball court, an old veteran approached me. He told me a story about how when he got back from the army three of his friends had heart attacks. Two of them died, but the third friend, however, survived. The old man attributed his friend’s survival to the fact that he was in such good physical condition because he played basketball every single day. His story makes me want to continue the habit I formed last summer of making one hundred basketball shots a day, so my body can be in the best shape possible to live a prosperous life.

Sitting under the umbrella, hearing the waves rush to the shore and knowing that it may be months before I would get to be with my friends again, I realized that I would be ok. My life had changed so much since I had arrived, four months previously. I had come to an understanding that I had wasted so much time not appreciating the person I was, and focusing on all the things I wasn’t, and looking for happiness by trying to please and be like others thought I should be. I didn’t love myself, and I wasn’t happy. But here, in St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in our nation, I had a rebirth, of sorts. I learned that I was enough, as long as I was becoming who I was meant to be, and that being happy was a choice.

Early morning, the birds start 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 from head to toe after a long day of work. In both cases, the relaxing and 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.

My life is sort of like a book, it should not be judged by its cover. Most of my peers perceive that everything in my life is sailing smoothly but boy were they wrong. While faking my well being was not in my best interest, I did it anyways. But because I lived up to the joyful girl I made myself to be people did not get to know who I truly am. Certainly life has been a struggle but slowly I am tearing down the walls I have built to protect myself because it is what I deserve.

Crouched under a mango tree trying to find shade from the scorching sun as sweat drips from my head to my feet, sizzling as it hits the ground. The temperature rises day by day in the summer I pray for rain to fall, looking at the stray animals on the streets in thirst for water. I stare off into the distance of barren acres of land, touching the dry, cracked soil and seeing lifeless crops die due to the boiling heat that I needed to take care of. As a boy living in the rural areas of India in a middle-class family, everyone in the village was taught at a young age to start working. Even though, I was the third child out of my four sibling it didn’t stop my parents from making me work out in the fields. It was tough having to do manual labor like doing field work to feeding and taking care of the animals every day. As the roosters crow I wake up immediately and lay out my school uniform and shower, I comb my hair slicked back, put on my shoes and run off to school with my friends. I stopped going to school until the 10th grade because back in the day my parents wouldn't care that much about education like today. It was more about harvesting corn in the summer to plant seeds in the winter. When I was around 20 years old my two older siblings got married and my family decided it was my turn. But my father tried to help me do something in life first and not sit at home and drink or smoke so he opened a pharmacy, but that didn't work out so long due to my obsession with alcohol and just being lazy which stopped the business from lasting and I continued to do nothing.