Happiness
CAUSE EFFECT ESSAY
TOPIC: Like other abstract concepts, happiness is often defined differently by different people. Naturally, sources of happiness can also be different to different people. What are the main “ingredients” of your happiness?
HAPPINESS
The 14th Dalai Lama used to say:” Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Actually, there are many definitions of happiness as people get happiness in their own way, and what makes one person happy might not work as well for another one. As for me, I believe that happiness is not difficult to obtain because it lies in what we think, what we say and what we do. Therefore, my happiness is a result of optimism, self-satisfaction and good relationships with my family and friends.
Optimism is the first reason for my happiness. What is optimism? In my opinion, I think optimism is a hopefulness and confidence that things will work out and helps us move on from the past and not fear the future. When something bad happens to me, I encourage myself that what caused the problem can be changed and believe in myself that I can find a solution to make things better. For example, when I get bad grade on an exam, instead of being sad and blaming myself, I often comfort myself that this test was difficult and I had learned in the wrong way. Then I ask myself what I did wrong to get a bad grade and what I can do to make my grade better. This positive thinking increases my energy to move on and motivates me to start planning a better way of learning. Being optimistic also helps me not to keep being depressed and thinking about my mistakes in the past, therefore I become happier and more energetic.
The second “ingredient” of my happiness is self-satisfaction. When I was a kid, everytime my parents and my relatives gave me my favourite candies or a small teddy bear, I would be happy so much. When I started going to primary school, being praised by teachers made me joyful all day. Everything seemed
TOPIC: Like other abstract concepts, happiness is often defined differently by different people. Naturally, sources of happiness can also be different to different people. What are the main “ingredients” of your happiness?
HAPPINESS
The 14th Dalai Lama used to say:” Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Actually, there are many definitions of happiness as people get happiness in their own way, and what makes one person happy might not work as well for another one. As for me, I believe that happiness is not difficult to obtain because it lies in what we think, what we say and what we do. Therefore, my happiness is a result of optimism, self-satisfaction and good relationships with my family and friends.
Optimism is the first reason for my happiness. What is optimism? In my opinion, I think optimism is a hopefulness and confidence that things will work out and helps us move on from the past and not fear the future. When something bad happens to me, I encourage myself that what caused the problem can be changed and believe in myself that I can find a solution to make things better. For example, when I get bad grade on an exam, instead of being sad and blaming myself, I often comfort myself that this test was difficult and I had learned in the wrong way. Then I ask myself what I did wrong to get a bad grade and what I can do to make my grade better. This positive thinking increases my energy to move on and motivates me to start planning a better way of learning. Being optimistic also helps me not to keep being depressed and thinking about my mistakes in the past, therefore I become happier and more energetic.
The second “ingredient” of my happiness is self-satisfaction. When I was a kid, everytime my parents and my relatives gave me my favourite candies or a small teddy bear, I would be happy so much. When I started going to primary school, being praised by teachers made me joyful all day. Everything seemed