A Crisis In My Mental History One Stage Onward Summary

Happiness is different for everyone depending on what type of person they are and their past experiences. John Mill’s autobiography “A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” claims that happiness is better found when helping others. He starts off by telling the reader about how he thinks helping others is the best way to be happy and then goes on to explain why it is the basis for his philosophy of life. Mill is trying to spread the idea that focusing on self happiness isn’t the best happiness in order to help others who may be having a hard time finding joy in life. People who read his article may not agree with him, but he is writing to anyone who will listen and respect his ideas. Even though there were religions who thought that to be happy they had to live life in misery, I think happiness is better achieved by bringing happiness to others.
Some used to think God was the only one who could be happy and “consigned [their] life in [the] world to misery and sin” (McMahon). The religious groups that believed that
A couple months ago my dog had hurt his back leg and he wasn’t walking so well. My family and I were looking all day for him and were worried he had gotten hit or hurt his leg even more. My dog ran away, but our neighbors brought him back. Instead of my neighbors let my dog just walk away, they picked him up and dropped him off at our house. They were super nice and my dog has ran away several times and they have had to return him several times. Furthermore, the writer who wrote the article “In the Pursuit of Unhappiness” thinks “culture [is] steeped [. . . ] in the relentless pursuit of personal pleasure” (McMahon). McMahon is agreeing with Mill that people shouldn’t focus on what makes them happy, but about others. In helping the world you are helping others and yourself. When you help others you get this feeling of accomplishment knowing you might have changed someone’s