As a child growing up, parents would teach their kids that realizing certain milestones in life, such as, getting A’s in school, getting accepted into an Ivy League college, having a respected career, having a trusted income, living in a two story home, marrying the love of your life, having well-rounded kids, pretty much living the American dream with the perfect family, will make us happy. The honest truth is that even obtaining all of these things listed above has nothing to do with happiness. The Oxford English Dictionary defined the word happiness as “the quality or condition of being happy;” it sounds fairly easy to define, but happiness isn’t just “being happy”. If the word was that easily interpreted, than many people wouldn’t misuse it in different contexts or scenarios. Happiness is different from happy moments. Even though the word happiness is debatable, at the end of the day, it is what everyone is trying to attain. What would happen if you were to reach a big goal that you set for yourself? Would you feel elated? For how many seconds, minutes, hours, or even days will you feel happy for? For a majority of us, the euphoric feeling isn’t going to last very long. Perhaps, the longest we will stay happy for is a month or sometimes more. It’s not like your goal has lost its meaning, but the mere fact that you were happy because the joy of achieving your goal and the feeling of being happy has subsided. Once the feeling fades, the next goal and the next achievement are in motion. Humans rarely ever feel completely content with where they are in life and when they feel that they’re happy when a certain situation happens, it doesn’t last too long it’s because people are always going to look for the next goal to pursue. Thi... ... middle of paper ... ...orking progress to reach a stage where one can focus on oneself and see the larger picture, as an adventure and experiences. The one secret to actually getting happiness has nothing to do with setting goals or achieving them. To obtain your definition of happiness, firstly, be more optimistic and have a positive outlook on all opportunities and not look for “happy moments,” because “happy moments” can last for so long. All in all, happiness equals appreciating each and every moment for whatever it has to offer, and to add personal values and purpose onto your life. This all might make happiness hard to achieve, but the up side is that happiness can be created in any situation. There are plenty of stories of people facing hardships in their life, but would still find happiness in their family, faith, and career, and the hardships just doesn’t seem too hard after all.
The 1941 film Citizen Kane revolves around a group of reporters trying to decipher newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane’s dying last word “Rosebud.” The film starts out with a long panning shot of a huge mansion and then a quick shot of Kane in his Xanadu mansion on his deathbed with him saying the word “Rosebud” before dropping a snow globe to the ground and then dying. Then the film goes back in forth between the upbringing of Kane’s life and the news reporters talking with everyone close to Kane to try and figure out what “Rosebud” meant to him. With that being said, the word legacy comes to mind as one of the major themes in this film with the story focusing on the rise and fall of Charles Foster Kane.
In order to achieve happiness, one should do what makes them happy such as trying to make their dream come true or spending time with their loved ones. The main character Santiago from “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, obtained happiness by following his dream and finding new companionship during his journey. Furthermore in the article “In the Pursuit of Unhappiness” by Darrin Mcmahon describes some things people do in order to be happy. Despite the high expectations to achieve happiness, one should follow their dreams and be with the ones you love.
Sarah Street said, “in Citizen Kane Welles is criticizing fundamental contradictions within monopolistic journalism and political rhetoric.” He wasn’t only showcasing his talents in film he was conveying a real message to the public. He was criticizing the way people’s agenda can truly affect the world as seen through Hearst these individuals have great power, but often lack honesty in the way of doing things. Another critic Armstrong says the script “asks you to ponder the meaning of someone's life. What makes living worthwhile? What makes a person happy: money, love, power? How do we make sense of that life--by what was said, what was done, or by what is left?” This great description entails many of the other elements Welles wanted to face. Although Kane had all he ever wanted what did he accomplish and what was he missing and searching for all his life. This draws back to the main search in the story for Rosebud. Welles while creating a wonderful visual piece also had the thrilling unique story to go along with
Finding the level of ultimate contentment and life satisfaction can be challenging, but the perception of situations or powerful social connections strengthens the level of happiness within a person. Topic Significance: In recent years, the rate of depression in young adults has increased as people struggle to find the meaning of happiness and how they can achieve happiness. As people continue throughout their life, it is important to recognize what makes them happy.
People experience emotions daily and is constantly changing due to their situation, even if the person may seem like a robot they still have the feeling of contempt which is still a basis of happiness. Before happiness became a modern way of living for us, we were told to show less emotion, more contempt if anything but throughout the years we began to change our focus. We in the past have had our focus on the economy and progression as a nation, however as explained in the article “The happiness effect” 246-47 By Alice Ghent, our economy might have been raising but our global sense of general well being has not. The effects of happiness vastly alters our lives in more ways than one. It can come in all shapes and sizes, it
People always search for happiness, but do they really know what happiness is? Happiness can be interpreted differently for many people. What happiness is? Happiness is the feeling that life is complete and people don’t need anything else to be happy. To be happy people feel complete and accomplished in their life so it could bring them happiness. Happiness is being able to be happy with their lives by having a successful career/ dream job that allows people to get paid what they want, which could bring them happiness, life is also completed by being with the people they love. Happiness is also having a good health, which will help people stay alive and be feeling complete with their lives. When people meet all these criteria
Can helping others lead greater happiness? Generally speaking, happiness or well-being consists of feeling hopeful, happy, and right about oneself, as well as energetic and connected to others. Happiness, perceived as the “psychological reward, an internal signaling device that indicates an adaptive problem has been or is in the process of being, solved successfully” (Hill, DelPriore, & Major, 2013). Likewise, ‘eating’ and ‘sex’ make people happy, as these behaviors are essential adaptive goals. To explain for this adaptive reason, performing acts of kindness might create happiness for caring for family, maintaining associations, and trading purposes. Although generosity can assume many forms, giving to others frequently involves sacrificing money or time (Liu & Aaker, 2008).
Every person has been happy at some point in their life. In “Is Our Definition of Happiness Changing? ” we are able to reflect on our past lives through rather than many years before. The basic definition of happiness isn’t changing, but our own personal happiness is (Von Baldegg, Price-Waldman, Korhonen). In “An Equation That Predicts Happiness,” happiness is something you can easily reach if managed correctly. Happiness is about managing expectations with what really happens. Watch one’s expectations in order to balance how you feel about a situation. It is said “lower your expectations” but it isn’t about lowering them. You can still remain realistic and you can still keep a humble view of happiness in your own life
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.
The movie Pursuit of Happyness shows how a person became a homeless then eventually how he survived from being a homeless. Then, to being a multi millionaire. Even though he experienced how hard life can be he still pursued to reach his goals in his life for his son. This movie shows how a homeless person stand up and pursue to be successful.
Achieving long-term personal happiness is possible with hard work and perseverance by using several methods. Understanding and following various steps to have fulfillment can change your life. By consistently following an assortment of important steps, you will develop a life pattern that is generally happy. Many people throughout history have attempted to find ways to become happier, and share the information with others. While there are occasionally things that should make a person unhappy, it is important to not allow unhappiness to become a lifelong pattern that destroys you mentally and physically. In addition, happy people tend to have more friends and success because they are fun to associate with.
What is happy? It’s a simple question. It’s an expression used to dictate our emotion at a particular time. What you feel though is Joy not happy. Happy is adjective that as children was okay use as a fluff word, but as we grew up not so much. As a child everything was happy, but as an adult everything is okay. The meaning of happy hasn’t changed though. One possibility is that our concept of happiness as we grew changed. If happiness has changed though can we still be happy? Happiness doesn’t come from the fluff word it comes from an emotion, like joy. Happiness though, is a transitory state that is brought on by strong emotions like joy.
Throughout my life, I have learned to see that happiness is not such an inaccessible dream. Although its notion varies from one person to another, happiness is often times only one inch away. Some people will experience happiness in the pursuit of it. Some will find it in sacrificing themselves for greater goals. Others will find it in people’s company, in lust or in drugs. There is no recipe for success or happiness, and it is only up to us to define what we want from life, and how we want to get it. The only certain thing is that it is never too late for anybody to achieve their dreams, to make peace with their feelings, and ultimately, to be happy.
Until people learn how to differentiate the idea of success and being successful, they will continue to strive for success in order to feel the euphoria. Once people learn how to be happy in every aspect of their life, success will be part of their morals, therefore it will no longer be part of peoples goals but they live. Surround yourself with happiness and you will be happy. Soon you find that success is not what makes you happy. Success is just the feeling after you become happy with yourself. A smile is contagious and so is happiness. People will soon find that the key to success is being happy.