Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Research Paper

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Words are country was founded on. Was putting the “The pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence wrong? Does it give people a false sense of duty? Or has the meaning of it just become misinterpreted? Let us, you and I, reinterpret what it means. Life, the right to live; Liberty, the right to live free; and the pursuit of happiness, the right to pursue whatever you define as happiness. It is less about finding, pursuing happiness and more about finding your life mission, and by doing that, happiness will find you. It means you have the freedom or liberty to choose happiness, it means you get to decide what you are going to do with your life.

By defining part of being a American, is
pursuing happiness, does that put us on a path of doing whatever it takes to find happiness? And if we are not living a “happy” life, then somehow we are failing as a American. Well, that might be the case. Although, it has less to do with the words that were written and more to do with how we have misinterpreted them.

“In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Less and less is done
Until non-action is achieved.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

The world is ruled by letting things take their course.
It cannot be ruled by interfering.”