The Importance Of Happiness In This Life 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.

I have some extremely strong feeling, trying to reflect back to my earliest childhood memory of my life, my first version was describing the setting that of my father hitting my mother over the head with something. Now, I know it was a gun. She was lying in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace with, me by her side trying to wait her up, then going outside crying so my, grandmother could hear me. There were so many scary moments in my childhood. I, can remember as a child, my father and brother falling in a lake of water with my mother screaming and helping them to get out, our house catching on fire with my mother and me along with three of my siblings trying to get out with her telling us to hold on to her and don’t let go. Which my father was no there to be found. Later we learned that he was drinking with his friend up the street under a tree. I was told a few neighbors came to help. Then we stay with my grandparents which I love. Because I love waiting for my granddad to come home from work so he, could take me to get vanilla ice cream. After moving to Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of six from Alabama. My father continues to be very abuses to my mother for fourteen years of their marriage. Thank God she’s still alive today.

Sometimes in life, growing up can in fact be difficult. We must face challenges that can sometimes be difficult to overcome, we have to persevere, and overcome the obstacles we have, however when you are born with special needs like Autism, it can be harder to overcome these obstacles. Living in the same household with my brother, Declan O’Neill, who since a young age has had to deal with Autism. Which makes things that is easy for us to do, like talking to people, and socializing, more difficult for him because he is afraid he will be judged.

My parents always had their problems. They fought about every little thing, and it was miserable. The screaming, the fighting, the physical and mental abuse to my mother was just terrifying. I would just sit there and listen while crying. One night they were fighting about bills, and all of a sudden it turned into a mad house or something. My brother came and got me out of the living room while it was going on because I was screaming at my father to stop hurting my mom. Another day my mom, my brother, my sister, and i were leaving to go to Destin and while we were about to leave, my dad shows up and starts yelling at my mom and physically hurting her again. But this time, my brother got him off of her and then my father realized that we had seen everything he’s done to her.

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.

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.

“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.

I once was told by my mother, “happiness is the key to a perfect life”. Throughout my life, I have carried that statement in my heart. Those few words have taught me how valuable the little things in life truly are. Some of the little things in life that allow me to be the happiest person I can be are the following: My boyfriend Dominic, family, my dog Riley, and Netflix. Dominic brings out my happiness by always makes sure I don’t go a minute without smiling. If it wasn’t for my family, I wouldn’t be where I am today and I’m incredibly happy with how much they push me to be the best I can be. When I’m sad, my dog always knows how to cheer me up by licking my tears away or she lays next to me and watches Netflix. Netflix makes me happy due to the fact that I don’t have to do anything but lay back and enjoy a funny movie or show with the people I love. These things are what make my world go around every day.

Happiness, one of the most desired things among people in our world, is relatively easy to achieve. Though this is true there is a common misconception when one is looking for happiness. This is that money buys happiness, though you may feel as if you need money to be happy you would be completely wrong. There is lots of other things that can make the human soul happy, the thousand of other factors of happiness range from nature to certain experiences. We can see this when we read the six titles, From Blossoms, Truth, I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, You Can Buy Happiness If It’s An Experience, High Incomes Don’t Bring You Happiness, and An Overview Of The Great Depression.

Happiness is defined as having a meaningful life. I believe that a meaningful life would be defined as understanding the separation of this life and the afterlife. This goes on to engaging and understanding your role in life and effect the world in a positive manner based on that role, yet still strive towards a spiritual connectedness by contributing to the human world in order to achieve spiritual connectedness. This also means finding truth in the world and reasoning that one still needs to work towards a spiritual afterlife in the end but must do this by understanding the truth of the world and educate yourself so that one can also live a virtuous life in the human world and focus on transcending to the afterlife after living a virtuous life.

“We live by hope. We do not always get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way,it will be better and that we can make it so.” Hubert H. Humphrey. I am a true believer that as humans we interpret things completely different from one another no matter how ¨simple¨ a phrase or something may be. I interpret this quote as tomorrow will be better. I guess you can say I am one who tends to live in the future rather than the present. I am Rajveer Sahota and this is a little insight on me.

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.

On the ceiling of my father’s room wall hung Albert Einstein's frame which had the inscription, “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Those words greatly inspired me as a teenager. Even in the most difficult moments, those words scream in my head not to give up. I grew up at a time or period in Nigeria when the military junta overthrew the civilian government. The political environment so tensed that it drove away investors. Consequently, the political instability created crippled the economy. The only people that benefited from the military government were their cronies. During this period, the popular middle class disappeared. The gap between the rich and the poor widened. Food shortage arose because the government stopped supporting the farmers through subsidies. Thus, it resulted in the inability of the head of families to provide three square meals for the family. The food scarcity affected my family as well. There were days I would walk long distances to school without eating. Also, on some days, I turned my hunger to fasting. I constantly improvised so I would not get discouraged. In all these, my father kept telling me, “My son, this is a phase in life we all have to go through, everything will be fine.” Despite the tough hurdles I had to cross growing up, I succeeded and became a role model to other teenagers in the neighborhood because of the moral and financial support from my parents, education

It was a February, 2007 when I came to live in Minnesota for the second time. I was born here, but my eleven great grandparents and grandparents wanted four other cousins and I to live with them for a couple of months. I was only two years old, so I do not remember much. Living with them was fun because they spoiled me a lot and gave me all the things a little girl wanted. At that time our family was kind of small and my grandparents wanted my cousins and me to have lots of things. My grandparents also showed me lots of manners because that is one of the best qualities a person could have. I thank them for showing me all the manners I need to have. Those few years I spent with them, they showed me lots of things and I’m thankful for those small lectures that made me the person who I am today.

I have extremely strong feeling trying to reflect back to my earliest childhood memory of my life, I my first version was describing the setting that of my father hitting my mother over the head with something. Now I know that it was a gun. She was lying in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace. I can remember as child, my father and brother falling in a lake of water with my mother screaming and helping them to get out, our house catching on fire with her and I and three of my siblings trying to get out with her telling us to hold on to her and don’t let go and my father was no there to be found. Later we learned that he was drinking with his friend up the street under a tree. I was told a few neighbors same to help. Then we stay with my grandparents which I love. Because I love waiting for my granddad to come home so he could take me to get vanilla ice cream. After moving to Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of six from Alabama. My father continue to be very abuses to my mother for fourteen year of their marriage. Thank God she’s still alive today.