Virtualized Wisdom

Some family have stereotypical ideas about disabled, but for Amy Purdy and her family that motivate them to live their lives beyond their limits. Although, she lost some parts of her body. For example, she lost both her legs below the knees, the spleen, kidneys. Unfortunately, she became unable to hear in her left ear. Another person who born with disability, Maysoon Zayid which is cerebral palsy. However, she did not give up for this so she worked hard and persevere to get a scholarship which was from Arizona State University. From Amy Purdy and Maysoon Zayid, we learn that facing problems forces us to get creative, and we should be optimistic when we want to change a critical situation.

Humans are social creatures. We identify ourselves through our community, loved ones, and those who genuinely appreciate our presence. Our identity defines our personality traits, highlight social roles. Those with disabilities are often confused about their identity because they are misunderstood and stigmatized. Through the use of literature, one can empathize better with other people especially those who are misunderstood by society. Disabled people are more likely to be neglected and subjected to prejudice or discrimination. In “Delusion of Grandeur”, Terry Ann Thaxton, talks about the struggle between Adam and his mother because of his disability. Adam struggles to cope with his environment and finds himself isolated and misunderstood. Families ultimately suffer but through their experience, they can learn some amazing lessons.

Perhaps it is safe to say that most everyone in the deranged world that we live in today aims for happiness. Some would even say we are simply slaves to our primal passions, shackled in our endless pursuit of fulfillments and shaping our existence around them. Gravitating towards the things in life that bring us pleasure, and recoiling away from those that could cause us pain. A lot of individuals think of happiness as an overall end goal, while others consider happiness the starting point of being great. Nevertheless, happiness is drawn from different things based off the individual.

Those with disabilities have to accept their lives as being deprived of some joyful instances that may never happen. Individuals with handicaps may not be able to be active with their (or other’s) children, dream jobs may not be within grasp, memories may not be accessible while other’s take them for granted and shun those who desire that which they’ve already acquired (“People With Disabilities”). Provided, life is hard with a disability but additionally, those with handicaps must suffer isolation which is unfavorable in multiple ways. With isolation the person has no help, no support, no companionship, and feel ultimately rejected shutting them down in a social manner (“People With Disabilities”).

It is natural for a person to focus their goals on what will provide happiness. People do not focus on being poor for instance but it does not mean that being rich provides complete happiness.

According to Buddha, the key to happiness and fulfillment is to detach yourself from all worldly goods and desires.

True happiness comes only from one’s self and not from the help of others. True happiness comes from one accomplishing their personal life goals. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance”, he shows why not to conform to society and instead be individualized. He goes on to write “A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but

People often create their own happiness. My friend, Hannah, when she mad, she thinks and does things that are funny. Creating your own happiness can be beneficial. Cheerfulness comes from inside you shown these examples, of mice and men, Harry Potter, and my friend Emily all created their own happiness.

Every day we think about what we do and what others do, what’s right from wrong what we want and what others want we usually forget what we want for our self’s.

We can’t search for happiness; we have to realize we have purpose. Even the things that seem very small have an infinite amount of purpose. Are brains are so trained on public reaction….. public approval, obvious meanings in life. The search leads to nothing.

Essentially, seeking happiness is necessary in life. We often hope to find happiness from other people, other things around us and forget that we can create it by ourselves. The novel “The happiness project” by Gretchen Rubin is sufficient evidence. The author states, “I am happy – but I’m not as happy as I should be.”(13) Then she started a project within a year to change her life and seek for a happier life. By making a list of things she has to do in the next twelve months, the author have done many things which affects her “Vitality” (1), her “Marriage” (38), her “Leisure” (112), her “Friendship” (141),etc. positively so that she can achieve her goal, which is a life full filed of happiness as she dreamed before. We can also do that. We know that if everyone of us set a goal and live purposely, we are all happy. However, we can be happier if we know how to change ourselves on the right way. We can make ourselves happy by doing simple things in our everyday life.

The old man told a story about the secret of happiness. According to the story, a shopkeeper sent his son to learn the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The wisest man said that the secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon. This story inspires someone who is focusing only the realistic promise not the world and also who is focusing only the marvels of world not realistic promise. When the world and realistic promise are in harmony, the people achieve a big happiness.

Giving things up in order to help others is what comes to mind when hearing the word selflessness. Being raised in a single home I was taught early on that no matter what may come my way to always think about self last. Learning values and morales at

We as humans have the ability to form intense emotional bonds with not only other humans, but other animals. This is why we have the instinct to protect what we love, this is why we can become so close with our family, our significant other, or our dog. Tying this together with doing things that you love may be a basic formula for happiness. Being happy is almost certainly key to a great life. If you are not happy with yourself, there is no way you can be happy with your life. We remedy this by finding things that make us happy, hence the pursuit of happiness. This, unlike the others is actually an easily proven method to enjoy life. You do not need heaps of money or the fame in the spotlight to finally say that it was all good.

selfless, this can lead to a state of unhappiness and cause resentment that the other person in the