The Pursuit of Happiness What is happiness? According to Dictionary.com, happiness is contentment, joy, good fortune, and the state of being happy. But how do you know when you’ve found your state of happiness? Is it forever, or is it just temporary? That is the secret to yourself, that is the secret to life. I beg to ask the question, what if happiness, isn’t to just be happy, but to understand pain. In a heartbreak of a significant one, in loss of a friend or relative crossing the great divide, or to lose friendship. To exemplify, according to an article, in psychologytoday.com, at a young age, we tend to avoid sad feelings. But why? “Sadness is a natural part of life and is usually connected with certain experiences of pain or …show more content…
Awakens us, to remind us what is important. We are human beings, we all have feelings, and don’t know what to do with them as we face the truths that reality brings. They say if you love something, let it go. Yeah, I had a hard time believing those few words, for almost five years now.I met the first guy I fell in love with and whom I believed I was destined to spend my whole life with. I remember reading a quote or something like that by Plato, saying, “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.” And I had sworn that I was sure he was my other half, that it was meant to be. Sucks though, when reality hits …show more content…
I met him at the Hawthorne high-school’s orientation. October 3, 2012, was the official date and months of being with him, for the first time ever he made me feel something I’ve never felt before. He was the first guy I ever came to love. I can go on about this, but I’m not going into detail about what happened those years. Let’s just wrap up that story to the simple truth, he left me. I had invested all my time and attention towards him, that I began to care less about school. I was never expecting it, or maybe I was. It hurt. Looking at him hurt. I remember coming home and crying my heart out. I was devastated. It was something I’ve never wanted to experience. I sobbed and sobbed that night, and gripped onto my pillow and shouted into them, hiding the cries. I felt empty when I awoke the next day. My eyes were swollen, and I felt an empty void. I felt dead. We didn’t speak to each other after that. Months passed, and I was keeping myself occupied with work and friends, I finally was learning how to move on, on my own. I finally came to find my happiness through realization. They say somethings happen for a reason. It’s either a
Happiness is intended pleasure or absence of pain.(513) Both this definition and the following definition for unhappiness suffer from really understanding what pleasure and pain are, the use of competent judges and those principles below aid in that.(513)
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.
Happiness is a characteristic meant to be felt during an exhilaration brought by an event, but is not meant to be felt always. Joy is often confused as Happy because society thinks that when a feeling of hope or optimistic vision is felt, that an event must have caused this occurrence, however Joy is beyond an experience, and is an ever-dwelling knowledge that travels beyond feeling.
Most would think say that happiness can be attained in many different ways, depending on a person. Some people can find happiness in doing what they love, some people can find happiness in every single penny they earn, and some people can find happiness in the simplest things, like seeing dogs. There's no right or wrong way, but then the kind of happiness people are often thinking about is just a temporary kind of happiness. So technically, when you talk about true and lifetime happiness, they're doing it all wrong. The human race believed that pain must be avoided at all times, like stress or any negative feeling. That is why when we face the struggles and hardships of life, we just couldn't handle it.
Happiness, like food and water, has been made a necessity for life by people throughout the years. It has gotten to
My boyfriend and I were so happy; we were such a “perfect couple.” He was truly a great guy, and I ,a well rounded character. I thought I knew him but fate would prove me wrong. He once told me that we would make it through anything, but I knew this was different he had dreams, and so much potential, this would surely detour him from his goals in life. My partner knew as well as I did that me getting pregnant was an accident but in the end he did not hesitate walking out on me, and there my chaos began.
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.
Happiness is an inner state of well-being and fulfilment, and therefore it has to come from inside. Every individual has his or her own emotions and way of thinking and as a result of this no one can really say what happiness is and what happiness is not. However, universally, happiness is a by-product of a healthy attitude and viewpoint. Happiness exists in everyone whether they choose to acknowledge and believe it or not. It is not rare nor is it something only the elite have: everyone has it but not everyone recognizes it. Contentment is finding a light at the end of every dark tunnel and in order to experience this we must ignore the pessimism surrounding us and remind ourselves that happiness is not a materialistic object but a choice and frame of mind.
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.
Do you believe in happy endings? Once in a person’s lifetime, everyone finds this one perfect person whom they fall hopelessly in love with and live happily ever after. That is a mere fallacy, in the real world, this simply does not happen. Yes, people do have common interests and therefore develop romantic involvement, but it is basic common sense that these relationships have a life span and simply cannot last. There are certain people who aren’t meant to fit into your life in the long-term no matter how much you want them to. Sometimes people come into your life to shake you up, tear apart your ego, flip your perspective, show your obstacles, break your heart and mind open. The cause of a breakup can be due to various reasons such as cheating, falling out of love, quarrelling or the lack of communication.
What does it mean to be happy? Happiness is a sensation that people want to have, and a lot of it. Above all else in the world, it’s what we seek and long for. Though this feeling can be found in many different places and at many different times, it isn’t easy to acquire. For some people, happiness might be found in exercise and sustaining good health. On the other hand, others can discover it when they go on vacation and relax. The idea here is that we each have our own things that make us happy.
For our Economics subject, we watched The Pursuit of Happyness, a movie based on Chris Gardner, a salesman who was not making that much money and eventually experiences homelessness with his five-year old son. He faces problems when his wife is unwilling to accept his goal to become a stockbroker and leaves him. However, he perseveres even under all this stress.
I cannot believe that it has been a month since my boyfriend decided to end our relationship. Sometimes I feel as though it is all a bad dream. Then I realized that I lost my best friend and the heartbreak sets in time after time again. Our relationship, from my point of view, was filled with nothing but endless laughter and most importantly love. I honestly felt like I was living in a fairy tale. Every single day, I was thanking God for this blessing he put into my life. Unfortunately, every good thing must come to an end. The end of our love was closer than I thought.
Happiness is a feeling that cannot be broken if strong enough, no matter how much sadness or hate is around you. Happiness can come from the smallest thing, for instance, music makes me happy and can easily change my mood, or when I am doing something I love my mood is easily changed. For others it could be whenever you do something well, or right and get recognition for it. It is the easiest feeling to be spread and given out but often neglected and forgotten about which is something we should all be more aware
Happiness is a state of mind. The dictionary definition is "feelings of joy and pleasure mingled together”. A feeling of happiness is more than just an experience of joy or pleasure. It is a state of mind where the individual feels that “life is good”. As Aristotle says, “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” I believe that everyone wants to be happy in life. One is abnormal if he prefers to be sad and alone.