What Does Happiness Mean To Me Essay

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A smile, a laugh, a quick thought, starry nights, walking in warm rain storms, playing soccer, chocolate; these are all things that make me happy. It may be different for the person sitting next to me in my advanced composition class, but everyone feels it. Happiness is an emotion that is the product of an object or an event. It is something that makes a man in his years of aged wisdom stop, smile, and think of happy times. To me happiness is like a piece of chocolate, it is something that everyone wants, something that we sometimes have to work hard for, and something that is always worth the risk of acting in order to have it.

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It is so much easier to let the world go on around us. Never doing anything means we’ll never get hurt, right? Just go on sitting in the corners and blending into the walls and we’ll be ok? Take it from someone who knows, it’s not OK. I was sitting there in my little corner dreaming about what everyone else had. They had their chocolates and I was outside licking the windows. It wasn’t until I realized that yes, I would have to take a bit of that brown bar entitled choocoo..late not knowing whither it was sweet or sour. I would have to take a risk that I saw what they had and I didn’t. Yes they still had pain in their lives, but they were living their lives. Benjamin Disralie once said “action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” If we don’t change we don’t grow, if we’re not growing, we’re not really living, if we’re not really living we’re not really happy. How can one ever experience the delights of chocolates if they won’t take a bite? Yes there is always the chance that something could happen while the leap of faith is being leapt. Sometimes we have to fall in order to fly. There is always that disappointment lurching around the corner ready to shove us back down into the pavement, but if the thought of disappointment is allowed to out weigh the step towards happiness, then the best chocolate yet to be experienced could be passed

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