Reflective Essay On Happiness

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Day #1
The result that I got was 4.5, which is the average, but I expected more. Since this is very subjective and questions 3 & 4 are opposite of each other which might lead to the ‘normal’ score of happiness and the person cannot answer both with a high number that will only make the person seem contradictory to themselves. I cannot judge my happiness based on this and I believe that I am a happy person seeing that I have everything that I could ask for. I got this score, by being content with life, I am, in fact, happy and compared to my peers I’m average. I’m not happy with my result seeing as the system on which this scoring grid lies on is very subjective and my score might change from one day to the other, I would like to keep a journal …show more content…

I usually listen to one song whilst reading a good book, so if by chance I listen to it again, I remember that book and what had happened in it and instantly, I am happy again. Another thing that lifts up my mood is ranting to my friends, it might be about something as small as me breaking a nail or as big as me failing a test. But, my friends always manage to find a way to make me happy again. Either by being silly or by saying stupid stuff that would usually make no sense but in that second, it’s the funniest thing I’d ever heard and I would laugh nonstop. Continuing my happiness scale journey, Today I got 5.5! A whole score higher than yesterday, only because today I ate cheesecake and went out with my mom to window shop.

Day #3
I don’t know if there is something to write because I only needed to make a happiness jar but I’ll probably write today to continue the happiness scale journey that I have started! Today I got 4, I was stressed out by stuff that’s been happening around me and nothing I did was lifting my mood. I didn’t tell anyone around me because they were all affected by this incident so I kept to myself and let others lean on me. At least, someone felt relieved by the end of the day, even though it was not myself. But it was good that I started to write the better memories, my mood was slightly better by the end of the day!

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