Satisfied People Are Happy People Analysis

Something every single person in the world wants is continual happiness. Everyone searches for this positive feeling in different ways such as: adrenaline, drugs, addictions, and splurging. Although, a not so common way people may find happiness is by being thankful. “If you analyze people’s actions, you will come to the conclusion that they all seek happiness. Every act, in fact, is a search for happiness, even if on the surface it doesn't look so” (Sasson). The human race searches for something that will complete us, or make us feel better about the things we do, and all signs have pointed us to happiness. In this essay, I will be comparing two articles, one written by David Murray and the other by Thomas Corley, hoping to answer the question “Does being thankful correlate with improved levels of happiness more than money does?” Both of these authors have written wonderfully about how being thankful makes you happier and how financially wealthy people are happier. It's a very intriguing question because it matters to us all, and once this question is answered it is possible that humans may be able to find the happiness that we so longingly search for. In the paper, “Thankful People Are Happy People”, Murray begins the paper by explaining the research
Corley has done his own research on the daily habits of the rich and the poor, which leads Corley to believe that the rich are happier than everyone else. “But wealth can not buy happiness, it can rent it. The rich are happier because they are able to create more happiness events during their lives than anyone else” (Corley). At the beginning of the paper, Corley says that happiness is event-driven, saying that the key to happiness is to have more positive events which you can only achieve if you have more