Happiness
Happiness Is Acceptance
What is happiness? Oxford Dictionaries define it as “the state of being happy”, which also means the state in which someone shows pleasure or contentment (Happiness, n.d.). In actual fact, however, happiness means differently to everyone as we are all looking and yearning for different kinds of happiness in life. Does being rich and successful means that you are happy? Some say it is enjoying life while others say it is the appreciating the little things in life, such as eating and sleeping. Many people are frequently looking around; searching for the happiness they want in their lives, yet not everyone manage to find what they are looking for.
There is a quote by psychologist Carl Jung, “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose it’s meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” Without those sad and disappointing moments in life, how would we know what it means to be happy and what happiness feels like. Happiness is acceptance. It is accepting the past and present, and accepting ourselves for who we are. We have to accept everything that is happening around us to achieve happiness. When unexpected negative events happen to us, we will most probably curse and wish that our lives were better, filled with only blissful events. However, how many of us have never experienced anything bad that brought sadness into our lives before? The most common unfortunate event is the loss of a close kin because sooner or later, everyone will eventually die. Death is inevitable but there are some people who chose not to accept what has happened, constantly trying to avoid the fact that their loved ones have passed on. It is not easy to accept the death of a loved one and some of us might spend more time grieving over it. Accepting takes time; it may take a few weeks, months, or even years. When they have decided to let go
What is happiness? Oxford Dictionaries define it as “the state of being happy”, which also means the state in which someone shows pleasure or contentment (Happiness, n.d.). In actual fact, however, happiness means differently to everyone as we are all looking and yearning for different kinds of happiness in life. Does being rich and successful means that you are happy? Some say it is enjoying life while others say it is the appreciating the little things in life, such as eating and sleeping. Many people are frequently looking around; searching for the happiness they want in their lives, yet not everyone manage to find what they are looking for.
There is a quote by psychologist Carl Jung, “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose it’s meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” Without those sad and disappointing moments in life, how would we know what it means to be happy and what happiness feels like. Happiness is acceptance. It is accepting the past and present, and accepting ourselves for who we are. We have to accept everything that is happening around us to achieve happiness. When unexpected negative events happen to us, we will most probably curse and wish that our lives were better, filled with only blissful events. However, how many of us have never experienced anything bad that brought sadness into our lives before? The most common unfortunate event is the loss of a close kin because sooner or later, everyone will eventually die. Death is inevitable but there are some people who chose not to accept what has happened, constantly trying to avoid the fact that their loved ones have passed on. It is not easy to accept the death of a loved one and some of us might spend more time grieving over it. Accepting takes time; it may take a few weeks, months, or even years. When they have decided to let go