Happiness is a powerful feeling that brings hope and joy to all humankind. True and pure happiness can only be found by one’s true inner self. Not everyone believes in the same happiness. But, when they are happy, most commonly they share the same interest and emotions of glory. This is because in all reality the key and destiny to life for humankind is the true virtue of happiness in any aspect. Although it is a challenge to find true happiness it is truly a blessing when you do. It’s not just something that you can find in a couple of days or even a couple of years. It is something that you will literally have to find over a course of your life time. Some stories that I have read that has related to this concept of happiness are The Book of Job and Plato: The Apology.
The Book of JOBS is a story about a wealthy man Job who lived in a land called Uz with his large family and extensive flocks. He was “blameless” and “upright,” and was always careful to avoid doing evil. One day, Satan (“the Adversary”) appears before God in heaven. God expressed to Satan about Job’s goodness, but Satan argued that Job was only good because God has blessed him abundantly. Satan than challenged God that, if given permission to punish the man, Job will turn and curse God. God allowed Satan to test Job but he forbid Satan to take Job’s life in the process. In the course of one day work, Job received four messages, each bearing separate news that his livestock, servants, and ten children have all died. But, he still blessed God in his prayers. Satan again test Job but this time, Job was afflicted with horrible skin sores. His wife encouraged him to curse God and to give up and die, but Job refused to, and her struggled to accept his condition. Then t...
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...life. Staying true to yourself and your self-dignity while being aware that you are the outcast. This is important for humans to know because people need to understand that it is okay to be different as long as you all find true happiness. For example, Socrates found true happiness in life, when he began to educate others to stand out and look differently towards the future. He love the warm feeling and I could tell that he did because he showed a lot of careless when he was going to receive his punishment.
Life has many twists and turns but we live it every day of our life to achieve the status of true happiness and when we do it will be the greatest feeling that anyone could possible feel. True and pure happiness can only be found by one’s true inner self. And like Chuck Palahniuk said, “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
In the story of Job, Job is a pious man, devoted to his faith, who is also wealthy and blessed. “That man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil…his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen… and a very large household” (Kethuvim 1.10 Lines 1-4). Job had everything he could ever need, and was extremely faithful to God. One day God and Ha-Satan were talking and God began to boast about Job. “There is no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil” (Kethuvim 1.10 Line 8). Ha-Satan says to God that Job has no reason to complain or fear God because God has given him everything he will ever need. Ha-Satan then makes a bet with God, in which God accepts the bet, that if everything is taken away from Job he will curse God in blasphemy. This paper will answer two questions, why does Job never curse God’s name after everything he has been through and why does God accept the bet with Ha-Satan?
"Are you happy?" "What is true happiness to you?" Bet you didn't know how to answer these questions. That being that these are questions not many of us actually put thought into. While reading the book "Fahrenheit 451," your mind will ponder the thought of happiness. The author Ray Bradbury really focuses the book on this idea of happiness he's created. The societies happiness is portrayed in an idea of living with a sitcom family, and dreams of adding on various walls sized televisions. People in this society do not have their own thoughts or do not express emotion. True happiness comes from acceptance of the situation and living life so you matter, make a difference and change the world somehow.
In a single day Job’s animals, servants, children were killed and his body was overcome with boils, all as a part of a bet (1:13-19; 2:7). After all of the suffering Job endures, to Gods dismay he still does not curse him. Hence the author of the Book of Job believes that evil things happen to blameless people, as Job exemplified.
Job was a man of the purest faith. When the world shunned God, Job's faith never declined. Job was a wealthy, handsome man with a beautiful wife and a vast amount of property. At some point in time, Satan made a bet with God that if Job situation was changed, his faith would quickly falter. On this note, God took Job's wealth, his property, his family, and his wife. When times were at their worst, God gave Job pus welts on Job's face, taking his looks. Job's faith, however, did not falter, instead it becamestronger. Job passed the test. God then healed Job, gave him more land, greater wealth , and a better wife. Job was baffled, he wondered the purpose behind his fall and rise. When he asked God this, God replied: "...Because I'm God." That was answer enough.
Before we look into specifics, we’ll examine the history and development of “happiness” as a philosophy. Of course, the emotion of happiness has always existed, but it began to be seriously contemplated around 2,500 years ago by philosophers like Confucius, Buddha, Socrates and Aristotle. Shortly after Buddha taught his followers his Noble Eight Fold Path (which we will talk about later), Aristotle was teaching that happiness is “dependent on the individual” (Aristotle).
We might not have the same opinions, paths, and ways of living; but we all, millions of people around the world, share the same purpose of life: Being able to say “I am having a good life!” What we mean by “good life” is living in pure happiness and having a wonderful peace of mind. The difference between us is that each one of us chooses a different way in his pursuit of happiness. Some find it in stability with a big house, a family, and a good paying job. Some find it in adventure and wildness, travel, and taking risks. While others don’t really have specific criteria or an organized plan, they just believe that happiness comes with living each day as if it was the last, with no worries about the rest. Personally, I find it in trying to be the best version of myself, in staying true to my principles, and in the same time in being able to make my own decisions; which reminds me of what George Loewenstein said “Just because we figure out that X makes people happy and they're choosing Y, we don't want to impose X on them.”
Happiness, what is it, and why do we strive to achieve it so persistently? Happiness in some points of view is portrayed as the state that is derived from self-awareness of a benefiting action or moment taking place. What of the moments that are not beneficial? Can a person still find moments of happiness and success in discord, a little glimmer of light shining from the deep recesses of our own consciousness? Plucking it from a mere moment, achieved from money, or is it so much more, happiness is the precipice that all strive to gain to better perceive their success. As a person lives, they are in a constant struggle to be happy. For instance, even the United States Constitution makes reference to the idea that every person has the inalienable right to pursue happiness. This was the resulting outcome of the enlightenment from France, spilling out into the rest of the world from 1650 through 1800. This revolutionized the idea that every single person has the inalienable right to happiness or in different views the right to succeed. As to how one peruses or conjures their happiness that is an entirely different concept and completely up to their preferred preference, but it is something that a person needs to find on their own for true success.
When the book of Job begins, Job couldn't ask for anything more, or be any happier. He was living a pious life with a generous collection of material possessions and a large loving family. God saw Job as an ideal servant. It was only when Satan hypothesized to God that the sole reason why Job was so obedient to God was because he was living so well that He allowed Satan to test this theory; under the condition that he didn't kill Job. Satan destroyed all that Job owned, and even killed his sons and daughters. Job was quite distraught over this, but didn't curse God as Satan had predicted. Satan then said that if Job's personal health were put at risk, then Job would certainly blaspheme against God. God again conceded to a test, making the same condition of not killing Job. Satan then covered Job's body with sores and blisters. Job was overwhe...
But in this debate, one question still raises its head - What is happiness? Happiness is not actually leading a luxurious life, but the luxury of living a life. Happiness is not actually about expanding your business, but it lies in expanding the horizons of life. Happiness is not having a meal in the most famous restaurant, but having it with your most beloved family. It does not lie in attending honorable parties, but to attend a party with honor.
According to Webster dictionary the word Happiness in defined as Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy. People when they think of happiness, they think about having to good feeling inside. There are many types of happiness, which are expressed in many ways. Happiness is something that you can't just get it comes form your soul. Happiness is can be changed through many things that happen in our every day live.
Happiness is an inner state of well-being and fulfilment, and therefore it has to come from inside. Every individual has his or her own emotions and way of thinking and as a result of this no one can really say what happiness is and what happiness is not. However, universally, happiness is a by-product of a healthy attitude and viewpoint. Happiness exists in everyone whether they choose to acknowledge and believe it or not. It is not rare nor is it something only the elite have: everyone has it but not everyone recognizes it. Contentment is finding a light at the end of every dark tunnel and in order to experience this we must ignore the pessimism surrounding us and remind ourselves that happiness is not a materialistic object but a choice and frame of mind.
Job was a very prosperous, wealthy man as well as a family man that was considered a prophet in Islam. He was “blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil” (1:1). Job was blessed beyond compare because he honored God and God’s laws. He was often referred to as one of the most loyal servants to the Lord and because of that he was rewarded for his behavior. He had many children and an abundance of livestock. Throughout the main theme in the Book of Job, Job was challenged by the Devil to see if he would ever lose faith in God because God knew that Job was one of his most strongest believers. God told the Devil that he could test Job with whatever he wanted he just could not kill him. So the Devil took his chance, he cursed Job with many
Happiness is a feeling that humans naturally desire. Without it, one feels incomplete. In this generation, happiness has taken on a definition by how we are presented to one another. It is measured by how much money we have, how famous we are, or the things we possess. When in reality, none of these things guarantee a happy life. Happiness is something that cannot be bought with money, but rather, it must be found, earned, sought after. Each and every one of us has our own list of things that we consider to make us happy. However, happiness shines brightest through the relationships we create, and the goals we make for ourselves to strive after. Along with these two essential sources, we then can mix and match those things in life that we enjoy to create our own unique formula for happiness.
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