Happiness Humankind can’t continue their lives without desires. If one wants to be happy‚ surely‚ he has to discover his best desires that provide him a happy life. Some of these desires that help to continue our lives can be acceptance in our relationships‚ a good family life and strong social relations. Trying to satisfy these desires has a great meaning to achieve happiness for me. To start with‚ however embarrassed I am about this desire of mine‚ I have an obsession to expect people to
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“Borders” and “Double Happiness” Nowadays‚ many cultures are disappearing and many encounter it. In “Borders”‚ by Thomas King and the movie “Double Happiness”‚ the mother and father‚ respectively‚ try to maintain their cultural identity through out their generations. Only one of the parents succeeded. It is the mother. Both made a lot of efforts but the mother made the right choices. She was able to bring her daughter back home although the father lost his daughter. There is a big contrast between
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Happiness is Found Through Shared Experiences Every single person in the world will develop at least one human relationship in their lifetime. To some‚ these relationships are sacred and to be cherished‚ for others they are merely convenient affairs and affiliations. In the movie Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn‚ and the poem Warren Pryor by Alden Nowlan‚ there are two different cases involving human relationships‚ and more specifically‚ parent/child relationships. In both texts‚ the parents
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HAPPINESS ON SOCIAL CONNECTIONS As you having lots of people in your life circles‚ seeing people regularly and being ‘well connected’ to each other has many advantages in every perspectives of life. Don’t get me wrong as mentioned in my last sentence. Knowing how to chill and enjoyable in ‘down time’ on your own‚ to reflect your personality‚ have privacy and relax is also essential have sometime matters – even superman had his fortress and power of solitude! But regular social contact has own
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world turns to technology more than ever. despite technology’s convenience and aid‚ it can also be destructive to a society. In the essay‚ “The Future of Happiness”‚ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s erudite tone and parallelism reflects his assertion that the advancement of technology comes with consequences. In the essay‚ “The Future of Happiness”‚ Csikszentmihalyi forms a parallel between historical technological advancements and the modern-day conflict of the world’s dependence on technology. Csikszentmihalyi
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The Importance Of Happiness In Life The human essential that is needed is a person to emotionally vent to. For men‚ this is typically the spouse. For those that are single‚ this may be a trusted friend whom one has known for years. Many of the socially anxious do not have any friends‚ let alone one who listens to their problems. Every human needs a release valve‚ a way of blowing off the steam. Otherwise‚ those nasty feelings are kept inside and the person ends up taking out the nasty feelings
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Happiness and Sadness As we go through life we experience events that affect us emotionally. Sometimes the events can make us happy while other times the event can make us feel sad. For example‚ attending a family reunion and seeing relatives that you have not seen for some time oftentimes makes the individual feel happy. However‚ losing a loved one would make the individual feel extremely sad. In two pieces of what could be termed a visual text‚ the viewer is brought into a space where he
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Daniel Gilbert‚ the author of "Stumbling on Happiness"‚ questions how a person can have a hard time accurately predicting what can make them happy in the future. Gilbert states that imaginations is what limits our way in understanding happiness. Humans have the ability to imagine the future‚ but they are really bad at it. We will not know how we feel tomorrow‚ or next year‚ or ten years later‚ we predict the future wrong. Gilbert states that it is our imagination and illusion of foresight which causes
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would be nothing we would try to ultimately achieve‚ and life would be pointless. A highest good would solve this‚ but it must be a means to itself‚ self-sufficient and within reach. "Happiness‚ then‚ is apparently something complete and self-sufficient‚ since it is the end of things achievable in action." Happiness alone satisfies these‚ and thus is our highest good. Aristotle describes all beings as having a purpose or function in life‚ which separates us from other beings and must thus be unique
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Happiness in Devices Recently technology has become a big part of society and will continue to advance continuously in the future. Most people consider technology a necessity for every day life‚ and fortunately it’s expanding enough to decelerate stagnation. It’s also necessary to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of technology. Technology influences minds in good and bad ways‚ and it allows people to share information which they would otherwise not be able to attain. Technology is becoming
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