Disney: A Fairy Tale Of Happiness In Disney

Disney shows and shows similar to such have taught us from a young age the concept of “happily ever after". This is a fairy-tale of absolute happiness. It is a state of feeling good all the time. In fairy tales, this feeling is usually found in fulfilling marriages, royal castles, singing birds and laughing children. In real life sometimes finding that happiness isn’t as easy as a fairy tale makes it look like. Research suggests that if you focus too much on trying to feel good all the time, you’ll actually undermine your ability to ever feel good because no amount of feeling good will be satisfying to you, that is when you become a perfectionist. If feeling good all the time were the only requirement for happiness, then a person who uses cocaine every day would be extremely happy receiving the same euphoria or natural happiness. Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we

In summary this means that, when we synthesize happiness it’s like a game of hide and seek, where we think happiness is something that is found. An example he uses is Moreese Bickhham. Moreese Bickham. He was 78 years old who had spent 37 years in a Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he didn 't commit. Based on his experience Bickhham explains it as to have been glorious, filled with some nice guys, and they had a gym (hazzah!). With this example Gilbert exemplifies a scenario that someone took what life gave them lemons and they made lemonade. But what I do question is, would any other ordinary person off the streets response the same way, enlightened by an experience that didn’t have to occur? (Gilbert