Definition Essay On Happiness

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What is happiness? I believe happiness to be an emotion that you get out of life. It’s just like any other emotion might feel like sadness or angry. An emotion that is gained by being around others or gained from situations in one's life. Happiness could also be gained by experiencing joy by being told a joke or seeing something that could be considered funny to one. For me really happiness is a more elongated version of joy. What I mean by this is that joy is an aspect of the feeling of happiness. These feelings are different for every person as they all share different opinions as to what brings them joy or happiness. In this essay I’ll being going the idea of happiness and how the meaning is different for every person.

To start we need to fully understand the concept of happiness. For my own personal feelings I experience happiness from receiving compliments from others. Purchasing commodities is also another aspect to what gives me happiness. With others it could be taking a long drive or reading a book for a long period of time. Happiness is really just the experiences you have in your life and how you react to them. As people we all react to these experiences different. Receiving compliments or shopping could be a stressful situation for another person. …show more content…

As mentioned above your reactions to experiences is a major aspect to what happiness is. Happiness may be an emotion or feeling, but just like those they are made up of other emotions of feelings. Joy is major aspect that makes up the feeling of happiness for it really is just another version of joy. They work in tandem with one another in a Yin & Yan situation. You can’t really have one without the other to complete one another. For someone joy could just be the major emotion while happiness is just an aspect for

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