Happiness in Life 2
Happiness in Life Rishitha Gottipati COMM 171 May 20, 2015
People differ from each other in every single aspect like the way they think and the way they act despite of where we live in this world. Every single person has set their priorities and they have their own ways to be happy. We cannot say one common thing can bring happiness to all. Let’s take money as an example; most people believe that life would be worse without money and I agree with it, but it may not apply for many because people say even though they are wealthy enough they are not happy. So what makes people happy? What is happiness? Everyone has their own definition of happiness and if I am asked the same question, I would say happiness is the feeling of joy, an extreme pleasure, satisfaction and an intense feeling which cannot be expressed in words. There are many things that make people happy; it can be a small gesture of smile from an unknown person passing by on the road or it can be a really big achievement that we were working on since long time or as I said earlier it varies from person to person. Personally I believe there are three main factors that make us lead happy lives: Love, health and career. It is love that makes a person happy. Love changes people the way they used to be, it brings joy, pleasure and always transform them to a better person without hard feelings. Love can be between parents and children, brother and sister, husband and wife, friends, neighbours, teacher and student etc.
Bertrand Russell (1969) states in his essay entitled “What I Have Lived For” that:
Love brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that he would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy and it relieves loneliness- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering
People differ from each other in every single aspect like the way they think and the way they act despite of where we live in this world. Every single person has set their priorities and they have their own ways to be happy. We cannot say one common thing can bring happiness to all. Let’s take money as an example; most people believe that life would be worse without money and I agree with it, but it may not apply for many because people say even though they are wealthy enough they are not happy. So what makes people happy? What is happiness? Everyone has their own definition of happiness and if I am asked the same question, I would say happiness is the feeling of joy, an extreme pleasure, satisfaction and an intense feeling which cannot be expressed in words. There are many things that make people happy; it can be a small gesture of smile from an unknown person passing by on the road or it can be a really big achievement that we were working on since long time or as I said earlier it varies from person to person. Personally I believe there are three main factors that make us lead happy lives: Love, health and career. It is love that makes a person happy. Love changes people the way they used to be, it brings joy, pleasure and always transform them to a better person without hard feelings. Love can be between parents and children, brother and sister, husband and wife, friends, neighbours, teacher and student etc.
Bertrand Russell (1969) states in his essay entitled “What I Have Lived For” that:
Love brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that he would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy and it relieves loneliness- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering
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