Definition Of Happiness

“Happiness depends upon ourselves,” Aristotle states. Everyone has their standard to give what is happiness. It leads that there will be hundreds of definition of happiness for everyone. It is likely that some people have difficulties to discover the abstract question without using other tools to help. To point out the answers of what is the happiness, the movie of the Pursuit of Happiness, the speech of Sam Burns, a song and an article about painting happiness are all giving their answers. Although all of them discuss the same theme about happiness, the different definitions of happiness can be known when audiences watch, read and listen. By exploring different modes, the definitions of Happiness cannot reach an agreement.
The movie of The
Sam Burns had the disease named progeria when he was infant, but he keeps his philosophy for happy life instead of constantly complain. For instance, He said that he just thinks nothing about progeria when people asked if life is hard for you because of progeria (2:33). He suffered a lot because of his disease as a young man, but he just made some adjustments for happiness in life. Indeed, he will think life is so hard for him if he always thinking about disease. focusing on things he can do is the way to achieve happiness rather than avoiding the truth of disease. Another example is that he always emphasizes that he is surrounded with high qualities (5:40). His friends and family accompany him and give the warmest care to him. In the school, he would like join in the band with friends and he also enjoy into his family when he at home. Both of them give the positive influence throughout his entire life. He always spends on his time with people who support him and uses his philosophy of happiness to complete
Comparing to the speech and movie express their definition of happiness through sharing personal story, the article expresses its definition through analyzing a painting. For example, the painting which is drawn by Matisse named Le Bonheur de Vivre. It is a paradise which has lots of couples lying on the wood to performing people have unthinking happy (Jones, 2014). The author uses words to introduce what the painting has and what the means is. Through analyzing the painting, people can know Matisse try to seek a Utopian life which people are free to do everything and live in a freedom society through painting. his happiness is bringing the belief of bliss to people through his art products. Even though his opinion about freedom in life is used by bourgeois hedonism, he still keeps on enjoying himself (Jones, 2014). For Matisse, he thinks freedom is a subject that make people keep away with trouble and get pure happiness. so he still thinks painting can bring hope to people and let them happy. Even though some people have been against his opinion, he still creates many paintings let people get happiness through