The Definition of Happiness

This is known because many people spend their lives searching for a fountain of happiness. Without a source of happiness, people will be unsatisfied with their lives, be uniform to others, and not accomplish anything substantial. If everyone aims to be happy in life and strives to attain true happiness, the world would be a better place and many achievements would be made. Work Cited Rand, Ayn. Anthem.

Furthermore, there are many ways for us to enjoy ou... ... middle of paper ... ...t process will make us become ourselves, and have the best happiness we ever have. In the end, happiness may come and go like the season. Happiness is everywhere; it depends on how we look for it and how our attitude is toward life. Therefore, happiness is when we enjoy our life, overcoming these difficulties we meet and share our love with others. If we could do well on all of these, we would attain happiness in our future life.

The online dictionary, “vocabulary.com” defines, “Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness.” Thus, we always wonder if we are happy or how could we be happier in our life. Happiness, therefore, becomes a goal for everybody. Everyone has their own way to find happiness. As it is a feeling, each of us has our own range and different definitions about this term.

The search for happiness has been one of the greatest driving forces over the ages. Defined as an active or passive sense of pleasure or satisfaction, happiness drives individuals to accomplish a number of fulfilling activities in their lives. Thus an evaluation of meanings attached to happiness provides insight on how an individual maximizes their pleasure. Concepts of positive-psychology provide an explanation of what is happiness and show a number of activities that enhance contentment. Najemy (89) argues that the theory of authentic happiness provides an approach for explaining happiness since it employs positive emotions, engagement, and meaning to describe such emotion.

None of the things mentioned solely leads to happiness. This is a problem in our society; everyone is on the “pursuit of happiness,” but what if we do not know the correct way on how to pursue it? From early times, philosophers and researchers have questioned the meaning of happiness. Various researchers have studied behaviors of a person after an action to determine a person’s level of happiness. Despite all the research done, there are very little studies, which examine the true meaning of happiness.

CONCLUSION My answer to my question is that everyone in the whole world secretly smiles at others misfortunes. Some people benefit from it the situation, others might gain from it. That person that is smiling at the other guy might think everything is a competition or they just have low self-esteem. We feel relief when they fail and knowing we are better. I, myself think that when you feel this pleasure you don’t really notice it.

Most people seem to think that they can bring happiness to themselves if they accomplish what they have in front of them. It seems that we are wrong and doing things completely wrong in order to bring happiness. Let us go further int... ... middle of paper ... ...hings to help bring happiness to yourself. Happiness doesn’t come from being more and more successful throughout your life and hoping that all the success will one day bring happiness. It comes from focusing on the good and positive in your life and doing things of positive influence.

- Sadhguru Kids are pretty much happy unless you make them unhappy. But, as adults, those roles reverse and we can be pretty much unhappy unless someone makes us happy. Yes, we have more stress and worries than kids do, but we also take a much harsher approach to life, and we focus more on yesterday and tomorrow than we do today. There are many happiness lessons you can learn by watching children, but I think one of the best is how they take life moment by moment. They enjoy what they are doing in the moment and stay curious as they go from task to task, which brings us back to the notion that you should be enjoying everything you can.

Therefore, everyone needs happiness in order to savor life. In life, there are many things that will try and bring you down. However, if you keep happiness, you will rise above them. “Everyone is frantically looking around the world for happiness.” (Spaht 24-25). Instead, if you would relax and live life to the fullest, happiness would find you.

Money cannot be kind and cannot have feelings, but the people who use it can and are, usually happy when they spend it because they got what they wanted half the time. Unless you are using it to pay bills. Overall, Money can’t buy love or friendship, but it can make you happier where you are, because you can go out and make friends or find the love of your life without