ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: happiness

I have always had an affinity for the dark side of human nature. I have watched countless serial killer documentaries and have tons of horror trivia stuck in my noggin. This directly relates to the art I make. I incorporate a piece of myself into my artwork. I connect with the dark side of human nature. It shows throughout my pieces that I reflect on many aspects of human nature and also that I do try to come from a place of understanding of the abnormal psyche.
Topic: happiness

I was bullied in art class by peers, and I was told I was demented for creating such pieces. It goes without saying I stopped doing my art. In retrospect, I wish that I continued just not at school. I feel an artistic soul that burns within me. I have been shutting it out for years. I have tried to quiet the inner voice, and it just always poured out. I wanted to try and reconcile with my happiness in this endeavor. I wanted to see if art and I could work things out. I wanted to see if the happiness I felt and the passion that burned within me could be reignited that’s the pivotal moment I wanted to recreate. I wanted to be successful in my artful endeavors but also wanted to recreate the spark I once knew that existed. I was beyond successful in my aspirations!
Topic: happiness

I have never been a formal definition of an artist or ever been accused of being talented, but it was worth a try for me to give art another shot so to speak. I wanted to commit to paper something that resembled a drawing, as I was still apprehensive of what I might do or be capable of after all these years. I haven’t had any formal training. I have always made art from the heart. I have never taken any courses relating to art only the requirements from my Middle School and some in High School. The art I made when I was 13 years old, was amazing! I created a beautifully constructed Frankenstein-like collages that were truly unique. I wanted to get to that place again with this project. I just wanted to take it slow. I wanted to create art that spoke to me like my collages used to but I wanted to get my creative engine warmed up first. I used this project as a brainstorming session. I wanted to create art that may serve me better later. I wanted to represent the dark side of a future collage in the making! I was thinking I could use the drawings in a future masterpiece collage and pick from magazines for the beauty aspect.
Topic: happiness

Day one: I drew a spider. I wanted to see my version of a spider and I was surprised at the outcome. I felt strange to be at the drawing board again so to speak. I felt like an alien trying to communicate with humans for the first time. It was awkward for me to begin and decide what I wanted to do in the first place, and it was like an encounter with ET trying to explain what I had no business doing. I struggled with the arachnid’s body, and I decided to draw it belly up and create a black widow spider. I completely colored it to find that my red sharpie was missing in action. Other than the sharpie faux pas, I actually liked my spider! I also thought it would be cool to put into art one of my fears. I also wanted to incorporate the spider because my dad had an awesome spider tattoo and he has always been someone I can relate to (even if we were butting heads). He sadly passed in 2017.
Topic: happiness

Day two: My dad was on my mind that day. He was cremated and I have his ashes. I began to think of if he had a tombstone what it might look like. I began to draw the tombstone and even ripped a few sheets because they weren’t up to par. I finally created the perfect rendition played out in my mind even drawing his bird sitting atop the headstone. I was happy that I could take something from my mind and illustrate it! My husband loved this picture! I think that death is an aspect of life and I have been living too much of it lately. I have grieved and have not had a break from someone I know dying since 2014. This affected my happiness a lot and made me think of aspects of life that used to bring me joy, which made me decide to do art again and take on this project.
Topic: happiness

Day three: Souls were on my mind. I was stretching this day for inspiration more off in another plane of existence. Where do we go when we die? Nobody knows for sure. I was thinking of how the eyes have been said to be a window to our souls and what kind of person we are. Blam! It hit me, An eye! I wanted to show the dangly bits. I wanted to show how a soul is more than good it’s also bad. Blam! There I was 13 again. It was euphoric it was like I hit a nerve that was dormant. I was representing two sides to the story again the way I used to. I was feeling complete like an accomplishment that day. I felt nostalgic. It felt euphoric creating art that mattered. I have often struggled with purpose and feeling of belonging. I don’t care as much about what other people think anymore. I am a returning student to UC Clermont. The first time I was in college I would have been too nervous to do a project this intense. It would have hit too close to home. I am glad that I came back and that I got this assignment when I did. It was a pivotal moment for me digging up old feelings of uncertainty and finding new meaning.
Topic: happiness

Day four: I couldn’t stray away from the eye. I loved my work the day previous and wanted to expound upon that concept. I drew an eye. It was a red eye, a tired eye. It had a glimmer like when someone asks you how you’re are to which you reply I’m doing and I say “fine” no matter how I’m feeling. It represented the happy face we put on for others. It represented the glimmer of hope we have in our darkest days. I wanted to express an emotion. An eye that has seen a lot in its day. I wasn’t happy while I drew this, but when I was done I felt good. I felt like I mattered in the world like I had an opinion others might want to hear once in a while. It felt good to create, and that’s when I realized it was beautiful and what others consider beautiful may not be the same interpretation as my own. It was cathartic because it released a feeling. Although it wasn’t a good feeling at first, in the end, it was bittersweet. It was like an awakening of some sort that had emotional ties. It felt good to express it.
Topic: happiness

Day five: I watched the newest Halloween movie with Michael Myers. It came out sometime last year, and I haven’t gotten a chance to see it yet but I digress. I drew inspiration from the film and decided to draw his iconic knife. I thought about him wielding it and I drew my version. It wasn’t perfect but I enjoyed it. I kept it black and white. I wanted to keep it black and white because there is never a black and white reason why someone resorts to murder. It is complex and a nature vs. nurture debate. While I added intricate details as an attempt to signify the complexity of psychology (my major). I was happy with its meaning. I liked what it represented in regard to human nature. I often strive to understand people with complex life stressors like Serial Killers. My major is Psychology and I hope I can incorporate my perceptions in my work in the field.
Topic: happiness

Day six: Holidays were on my mind. I was thinking about my childhood and how my family struggled to make ends meet. I thought about the happy times with family when we would search for eggs on Easter and go trick or treating on Halloween and open presents on Christmas day. I thought of how I felt those days. I decided to draw pagan symbols. My reasoning for drawing these symbols is that it is often unrecognized that a lot of our holidays we celebrate are rooted in Paganism. I decided to incorporate the symbols I knew. For example earth and Neptune. It took me a while to configure these two so I went to bed feeling good about my work and happy! I have studied a few different religions including Christian, Pagan, Native American and Satanism. I was going for the shock value of this piece. I wanted the onlookers to be uneasy. I find that many tasks in life aren’t easy and are unsettling. I find family gatherings rather unsettling.
Topic: happiness

Day Seven: I wanted to add to my work for the previous night and add more symbols to the page. I included the mark of thorn from the Halloween movie The curse of Michael Myers. I really loved this piece and added on to it for a few more days. I added music while I was making the additions and that only made the journey more enjoyable. It took me someplace where stress couldn’t find me. It elevated my mood and helped me to focus. I learned a lot from these days spent. I learned that I don’t give myself enough credit. I learned that I am an artist in my own way. I realized that anyone could do this. Anyone could sit down and practice and learn enough to create a piece that is uniquely them, No formal training necessary! Art helps to articulate feelings and emotions when words aren’t enough. I learned that bullies should not matter in the affairs of the soul. I connected with myself and was honest with myself about my expectations and wildly exceeded them!
Topic: happiness

Doodling can spark your memory and transport you back in time when you were creating the art (Courneya, 2012). I could recall my early teens and when I used to create art and how it made me feel. I could remember my emotions and how happy I used to be when I made art that expressed my individualism. I was striving to obtain the happiness I once had in my teens. I wanted to reach that level of elation again! My art exposed the duality of human nature. I was ecstatic when I hit that Aha! Moment with my art and felt that euphoria again, I was essentially traveling through time. When art is speaking through its creator or onlookers I mean what an artist is trying to convey may not be what the onlooker is seeing their perception is based on their world.
Topic: happiness

Grotesque art is where a piece shows horror or can be depicted as disturbing or considerably gross (Bird, 2012, p.50). This type describes my style to a T. I like representing life in its duality, the good, bad and the ugly. Referring to the last paragraph an onlooker such as myself would see the beauty in a Grotesque work whereas most would deem it shocking or wouldn’t want to look at it. Some may consider a work of art to be great for many different reasons. It could be style, brush/paint strokes, vision, or they can’t explain why they don’t like it or do like it. In either case, art is in the eye of the beholder.
Topic: happiness

Art makes the individual feel tingly. I speak from my own experiences. I feel tingly and alive when I create art, it makes me feel me. It connects me to my inner-self and essentially helps me to get to know myself and makes me consider my strengths and weaknesses and my creative juicing ability. It allows me to introspect and really reflect on myself and my beliefs my inner voice speaks to me (Reisburg, p.9, 2019).
Topic: happiness

To address art being a way of life, for example, is how I live. I eat, sleep, breathe horror flicks. It’s natural my art would reflect this. Art can change over time as you mature, and change your views about things and life topics. I’m not saying that every piece someone does is the same just that it’s reflective of the individual’s desires and perceptions. Art is expressive of the person who made it. We can make a hasty decision about a person with our impression of them. Art is deeper than that. It forces us to think, it takes our previously known knowledge and begs a question. How should I interpret this?
Topic: happiness

Consequentially, this generation speculates that some of us in social media aren’t “real”, that we all have this made up character, but this is really because we are afraid to show the world if we are good enough for the viewers eyes. This means, that we are constantly re-creating ourselves, changing, because at a point we just care about what the audience think of us. Thirdly, social media has a big impact on self-esteem, it often shows these models with those great bodies and that has a great effect on people’s self-esteem leading to depression and anxiety. For that reason, viewing other people’s selfies lowers self-esteem, because users compare themselves to photos of people looking their happiest.
Topic: happiness

Obviously he has an extraordinary present for managing numbers in his style for arrangements. The fundamental hitches to his recharged point of view are that the program does not pay any compensation and only one of the 20 colleagues will over the long haul be acquired. In the meantime, his budgetary condition grows progressively tricky when two or three his bone filtering machines are stolen, and he and his tyke are kicked out from their townhouse. They move into a little room at a motel anyway then are expelled on to the roads. Chris and Christopher wind up dozing in a bathroom in a transport station. Luckily, they can make this terrifying information into a game by envisioning they are hanging out in a natural hollow from dinosaurs.
Topic: happiness

Chris use to lie before his kid who sees the confusion to shield others from recognizing how unglued his situation genuinely was. Additionally, when he’s ridiculously left to pay a taxi toll he doesn’t have the money for, he get away. Chris’ nonappearance of benefits suggests he’s on and on maintains a strategic distance from enraged landowners who need back-rent installments from him. He for the most part uncovers to them he’ll get the money, yet is constantly unfit to finish on that ensure. Someone paints “Dear Chris, U suck” on the mass of his space. An impermanent position director treats him like a frill if the need emerges employing and requesting him to do various favors, for instance, getting doughnuts, moving his vehicle, etc.. After the IRS trims $600 in back evaluations from his record, Chris loses his cool and furiously demands that a friend pay back $14 that he owes him .
Topic: happiness

Everyone in this world wants to be happy. Each one of us in our day to day life strives to be happy. Everything we do, all the activities we undertake in our life is in search of happiness. Happiness can be acquired through countless stimuli, whether they are material or emotional. One cannot give a general definition for happiness, due to the fact that each person has their own perception of what happiness is. For some people it may be as simple as simple as waking up every morning and watching the sun rise from their small house and for others it may be living in luxurious house with all the facilities.
Topic: happiness

One of the major reason we are not able to be happy nowadays is due to technology. When the brain comes into contact with technology, it can become extremely addicted to it and reliant on it. This can lead to negative effects such as anxiety, stress, loneliness and depression. Another major cause is obsession over the past. Often we fixate our minds on the way things could be or should have been in the past. This makes us unhappy in the present and we miss out on our chances to enjoy life.
Topic: happiness

Moreover, we focus on our negatives more than our positive aspects of life. We may not be able to control everything in our life but we can sure control our reactions to it. Everyone has positive and negative aspects in their life and our happiness completely depends on which aspect we choose to look at. When we focus on the negative aspects our life will be filled with regret and sadness but when we choose to look at the positive aspects, then our life turns to be blissful and filled with joy.
Topic: happiness

Happiness is not about feeling good all the time. Only when you have downfalls in your life you are able to appreciate the good things you have in life. It can only be experienced if you have both ups and downs in your life. Happiness is not about being rich or being able to afford everything you want. While being poor definitely doesn’t make us happy, beyond that money cannot buy happiness. For example if a person wins around $1million, he may be happy for a short term but in a long term money cannot buy happiness. Its only when he/she decides to spend the money on experiences such as weekend getaways with friends or family he is able to be happy. Happiness is not a final destination. It takes regular effort to maintain happiness. After you attain your happiness it fades away over time. Moreover, it is a journey of life. For example, when you get an appraisal or promotion, we may be happy for a while but soon we adapt to it and it does not make us happy anymore.
Topic: happiness

Happiness frames a focal subject of Buddhist lessons. For extreme opportunity from affliction, the Noble Eightfold Path drives its specialist to Nirvana, a condition of everlasting harmony (Kwee 112). Extreme happiness is just accomplished by beating desiring in all structures. Progressively commonplace kinds of happiness, for instance, securing wealth and keeping up huge relationships, are moreover seen as admirable objectives for laypeople. Buddhism also empowers the age of treasuring generosity as well as empathy, the craving for the happiness and welfare everything being equal.
Topic: happiness

Then again, in Advaita Vedanta, a definitive objective of life is happiness, as in duality among Atman and Brahman is risen above and one understands oneself to be the Self on the whole. Patanjali, creator of the Yoga Sutras, composed thoroughly on the mental and ontological underlying foundations of joy. In addition, the Chinese Confucian mastermind Mencius, who had looked to offer counsel to merciless political pioneers amid China’s Warring States period, was persuaded that the mind assumed an intervening job between the “lesser self” (the physiological self) and the “more prominent self” (the ethical self), and that getting the needs directly between these two would prompt sage-hood.
Topic: happiness

Music began millions of years ago. There has been evidence of it in cave paintings, of people holding simple musical instruments similar to a flute. Since then music has evolved and expanded thoroughly, in fact there are a countless number of genres such as pop, rap, electric, folk, country, hip hop that exist as of the 21st century. And it’s constantly playing around us today. Not only is music a huge entertainment industry but is also known to play a role in changing our mood.
Topic: happiness

In fact there is some strong evolutionary evidence supporting this claim as Leutwyler/live science REFERENCE studied five-month-old babies, demonstrating how we react emotionally to songs at such a young age. When these young babies were exposed to sad music, usually a slow tempo and written in a minor key, they made an emotionally neutral face. However, when exposed to ‘Ode to Joy’ from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (a suggestive happy song due to its fast tempo and because it’s written in a major key), the babies smiled and stared at the face for three to four seconds long, suggesting they were interested in the sounds.
Topic: happiness

In support, Ferguson et al YEAR REFERENCE aimed to investigate whether people can improve their moods by listening to music, and have found comparable results. The researcher believes that when people actively try to seek happiness from listening to upbeat/happy music, they can improve their overall happiness, health and relationship satisfaction however, if the music is playing in the background, the songs will not make an effect. All the participants listened to songs by an upbeat American musician called Aaron Copland. The first group of participants improved their mood listening to the music, after being instructed to do so. The other control group showed no improvement in mood when not asked to try and change their mood. After two weeks of repeated lab sessions similar to the one discussed, the first group reported significantly higher levels of happiness, contrasting the control. Ferguson proposes that people feel happier when they focus on the experience of the ‘journey’ rather than the ‘destination’ whilst listening to music and make the effort to feel better. Not only, does happy music improve your mood in general, but also affects the way we interpret the world. For instance, Logeswaran and Bhattacharya REFERENCE have demonstrated how music affects the way we see visual images. After subjects listened to either happy or sad songs, they were shown a picture of a face that was either happy, sad or had a neutral facial expression. The participants that listened to the happy music rated the happy faces comparatively happier than others, and the sad faces as much sadder, exaggerating the emotional content of the expressions. Thus, music powerfully influenced the emotional ratings of the faces and can easily spread from the sensory system to another.
Topic: happiness

However, there is contradictory research that suggests that melancholic music can have a positive effect on our emotional well-being. Taruffi & Koelsch’s (Taruffi & Koelsch, 2014) REFERENCE have been the first researchers to comprehensively shown that listening to sad music can lead to beneficial emotional effects. They used an online survey that was filled out by 722 people (from Europe, Asia, South and North America of both genders, an age range from 16 to 68 years) to investigate the rewarding aspects of unhappy music. The researchers used. Results showed that the ratings (on a 7-point Likert scale) of the participants coincided with their predictions. In fact, the researchers found that sad music was surprisingly evoked by nostalgia, peacefulness, tenderness and wonder, rather than unhappiness. There has been strong support for their claims; for example, Hargreaves (REFERENCE) found that music that is sad, but beautiful could help people to feel better when they’re feeling low. He explains that people’s response to music depends on three key factors ‘ the listener (their age, personality and musical experience can affect their response), the music (varies in genre, speed, loudness) and the situation (possibly depending on the place its played and with the people its heard with).
Topic: happiness

There is a large body of evidence showing how music can make us happier thus professionals have developed a special type of therapy seen to be quite reliable called music therapy. Music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs of individuals. Wiley-Blackwell REFERENCE conducted a study and found that hospitalized children in music therapy are overall happier than children in play therapy, in which toys and puzzles were their source of entertainment. Music therapy has been proven very effective for patients experiencing depression (Hendon & Bohon REFERENCE) as well anxiety and loneliness (Berger REFERENCE). Therapists have successfully used music on stroke victims to teach them how to talk again and on stutterers to help them dictate words correctly and fluently. There are yet more benefits to listening to music ‘ scientists have also found that music boosts the immune system of patients after surgery, decrease blood pressure of cardiac patients and lower stress in pregnant women. However, an overdose of music isn’t necessarily a good thing. Music is much like an addiction, which runs on a reward pathway in the brain and listening to too much of it can numb its effects on us. Music plays everywhere nowadays ‘ in lifts, shops and in the car, which makes a lot of us unresponsive to its largely beneficial effects.
Topic: happiness

There have been several explanations for why music can make us happy and the most mutual one has been linked to serotonin and dopamine. Calming musical tunes can surge the release of serotonin (a neurotransmitter responsible for maintaining mood balance) and increase dopamine (another neurotransmitter that fosters a general sense of well-being) in the body. A hormone called norepinephrine may also be released when one listens to music, bringing about euphoria and elation. Music can also affect our physiological processes, slowing down our heart rate and breathing rate, to reduce stress by relaxing tensed muscles. Therefore, music has been considered as a natural antidepressant. Music has a strong effect on our brain too, especially in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and parietal lobe, as they are broadly responsible for spatial navigation, emotions and judgment.
Topic: happiness

Let us engage and create feeling of love by making self capable through appropriate changes in our dealings with others. There is no other way to love and be loved. The physical intimacy devoid of good feelings is not love but lust. People often fail to conceive love as pious in essence. While dealing with others, let us take care that our dealings make them cheerful, by helping them to come out of their problem, appreciate their successes and be grateful for help received from them. All these activities are to express love.
Topic: happiness

Love is a divine energy. I had a very vague idea about love initially. As I tried to understand more about it, a completely different perspective and thinking develops that explains the true essence of love. I have come to know from spiritual literature that love is God and God is love. It appears too abstract in the first instance, but more we tend to think of God will make us to love God and all other creations of God. It is like energy flowing within us derived from Ultimate that thinks positive and helps in inner purification. Albert Einstein discovered energy mass equation that explains interconnection of material and energy. It revolutionized the thinking of present century by using a small amount of mass to derive a tremendous energy. Hence, along with our material existence, somewhere we are also part of the divine energy lying within us as dormant. Logically, this divine energy which is nothing but love brings us close to Ultimate. I can imagine that every one of us has a great capacity of this divine love within us, but it is hidden, untapped and misdirected. Great saints have worked on human beings from time to time by developing intense feeling of love and concern for others. This has helped them to achieve higher levels of spiritual growth and closeness with the ultimate. The true meaning of love is inner purification of soul. This is the real purpose of love.
Topic: happiness

Love is nothing but inner need and the reason for feeling happiness. Fill the requirement of soul by being in love with other person. The other person to whom you love is only an object to be loved; it is our own emotions that create love for that person. People love someone if they feel that person is an object of love. This feeling comes out of inner need. This is the reason that when the object of love is same, but still different people react to it in a different manner. A person may become an object of love for someone but similar feelings may be missing in the heart of other person. The feeling of love resides in us; other person becomes only a facilitator to bring out this feeling. Irrespective of how good other person may be, love will have to originate from you to create that loving emotion. All other things follow thereafter. These emotions come when we feel need of love as against negative emotions of anger and hate.
Topic: happiness

The advantages of giving love to the other person are essentially to fulfill our inner need and to generate happiness. If we demand love from other person, we may not be able to feel it when our inner condition is filled with negative feelings. Love is an activity of thinking good about others, doing all that can be done to make others feel good and acting in a manner that other person feels comfortable. It is not something to be demanded as it cannot be preserved; and we cannot take it or feel it unless we make ourselves capable for it.
Topic: happiness

Media influences understanding of various issues in life including perception of love. Love has different connation in media, which is not actual reality. The people in love as shown in media are projected somewhat special; it makes us to realize incapable of offering or getting that sort of love. People often adore type of love which is without any argument, full of sacrifices and tolerance from the other person. The media glorifies love and shows loving couple who do so many unusual things to attract each others’ attention. It affects perception of love.
Topic: happiness

We imagine women in love as beautiful, sacrificing and never arguing. The media depicts love based on physical attraction. In actual life situation, things are different. Love does not mean that there will not be any differences and the other person will always remain dumb. It does not mean that a person not very handsome or beautiful will be less attractive and loving in nature. The attractiveness of a person is depicted from overall personality that is a combination of physical looks, positive attitude and confidence. The love stories as reflected in media and narrated by other persons do mostly narrate physical aspect of love. It does not emphasize on the emotional closeness and spiritual part of the love which is more subtle and enduring. Our perception of love is thus limited in nature.
Topic: happiness

Life is not always about happy or sad situation. It has its own moments of ups and down. How to adjust in each situation and take it in stride will greatly affect the quality of life and relationship with other people. The perception of love as being devoid of any problem, trouble and pain is thus misconception. People feel more and more pain as they are not able to live in love in relationship with other people. Our perception of love has to change. We have to live with all the problems that we face in unison, sort out our differences and make change in our life style to bring semblance of love and tolerance in our attitude. We have to meet the need of soul to develop spiritual love for other persons which goes beyond the physical attraction.
Topic: happiness

The present environment is not conducive, and in these conditions, special efforts by cleaning of heart from bad feelings towards others are required. It requires a genuine feeling of love, affection and concern for other human beings. Hardly any great personality at this time either in the social or political arena preaches universal love and brotherhood. Nations and societies lay much importance on material achievements while these intangible benefits which are ideal for long lasting happiness are ignored. Much of our attention through books, preaching and media goes towards material welfare. Children, students and young people accumulate information on varied fields, but rarely educational curriculum lays importance on human values based on love and affection. It has made people to lose sight of good values of life that are built on love and compassion. People measure achievement and success with the yardstick of material comforts. Life has become unbalanced as this crucial aspect of our need is not fully emphasized.
Topic: happiness

Most of us attach so many conditions to be able to love and like other person. We expect that other person ought to deserve love from us. This impairs our capacity to love someone who needs it most. As people become more and more sophisticated and refined in their pursuit of material comforts, they tend to fall short in their capacity to love others. They find other person not capable and refined and feel it difficult to love and show good feelings to other person. The true love requires that it ought not to be conditional. Love should flow out of compassion for other person. Our heart ought to generate a feeling of love and concern. Love in the pure form means giving without expecting anything in return. This is true love. When mother loves children, it is unconditional and is pure in nature. Mother feels discomfort in attending to the child; however, she has inner urge to meet all the needs of the child and sees happiness of child as her own happiness. While loving a person one should relate the happiness of the other person as his own, and think what best one can offer to that person.
Topic: happiness

The capacity to love is impacted if we always expect to receive something from others in return. In that case, inner self lacks sufficient feelings of love and concern for other person. If we think of giving something to others in love, it requires that we are satisfied with what we have possessed. It helps to generate love for others, if we are calm and at peace with our self. The capacity of a person to give something in love does not always depend on his or her material belongings but the willingness and character of that person. Giving something does not mean offering only material possessions. We have to be good at heart to be able to give something to others in token of love and concern. If a person has willingness to give something precious to others, he or she has capacity to love others. When we think of giving to other person, we care for that person. It could be offering good advice, praises, genuine sympathy or any other help that he/she need at that material time. When mother or father loves a child they are actually taking care of the child.
Topic: happiness

It is common to be busy about own material success, power and fame, and in the process do little to develop true feeling of love. We therefore tend to make other person believe that we love him or her, but may be lacking inner feeling of concern for that person. It is usual with so many of us to feel zealous of close friend or relative, if they are doing well in life in comparison to us. These negative tendencies keep on haunting us that affects true lovable feeling. People become cynic of others, and try to find fault. They sometimes feel unhappy to find other person better placed in life. It is not easy to develop feeling of love for other person unless we get rid of these negative attitudes. The way to adhering to moral values is to think and work for good of others. When we try to remain good to others, it develops inner feeling of love and affection. Think of loving others as much as we love ourselves.
Topic: happiness

Ego and selfish feelings come in the way to generate a feeling of love and compassion for other person. If a person is successful in his or her profession, it need not automatically make him or her to develop a feeling of love and compassion for others. Success and wealth may turn a person egoistic, and find it difficult to accept others as equal. The moment we feel higher in stature than others, makes us to expect more in love and obedience from others than we offer in return. The capacity to love others gets affected if filled with such feelings. Other persons out of inferiority complex may respect us, but it will be short of generating loving feelings in their heart. We put limit on true love by bringing these negative emotions filled with our own ego and superiority complex. It takes long time and serious efforts to clean these feelings.
Topic: happiness

Love is a means of communication of good feelings to the other person. It is wish for welfare, success and happiness of a person. These feelings develop when we love a person. It makes us conscious of which actions of ours will make other person feel better. Express feelings to a person in a way it matches with his/ her sensitivity. Love making is a personal affair and each person would like to feel about love in a particular manner. Love demands emotional closeness through care, compassion, tolerance and understanding,
Topic: happiness

Sensitivity is towards particular way we talk, express our feelings and understand other person. If we take care of sensitivity of other person in these matters; it will help in more harmonious relation and better mutual understanding. Feelings of love get impaired if we do not talk nicely to others, and try to tease or find fault. Take care while talking so that in any way we do not hurt other person. There will be number of occasions in our life when we will differ with others. If a person out of ego behaves superior, it makes other person feel small and hurt.
Topic: happiness

It is usual to differ on various issues depending on background, education and overall interest. Is it worth to argue for long period to prove your point of view on any topic? It is to show your superiority. Let us not compete while arguing a point so that other person does not feel let down. These discussions ought to be more informative in nature. Let knowledge do not come in our way to block a better relationship with other person. While talking to a child, we talk in the language a child understands. We ourselves behave like a child. In the similar manner, we ought to talk to other person in the manner he or she likes and understands. The language used is the one that can bring us on same wavelength with that of other person. These are real life situations which each person observes, but we often ignore it. People fail to assess sensitivity of the other person and not able to connect emotionally.
Topic: happiness

The other person is not interested to know about your successes and achievement. To derive close loving feelings, discuss issues relating to the welfare of that person. Discuss his/her achievements, problems and overall welfare. Take interest in other person’s welfare. Provide encouragement, sympathy or consolation whatever desired to boost the morale of that person. Take genuine interest in the other person so that he/she feels free to reveal his inner feelings. The body language talks lot and gives different meaning to other person. Be sensitive to align your body language to make a positive impact on other person. Love and happiness can be achieved only if able to match the sensitivity of other person. The genuine need to bring happiness in the other person helps in understanding the sensitivity of that person.
Topic: happiness

Love is subtle in nature and it does not have immediate tangible benefits. We need certain transformation within to develop a feeling of love and concern for others. These feelings come provided we value welfare of others as important as our own, and this gets reflected in our attitude towards others. Some people by heart are considerate and helpful to others. People who consider self- interest more important take time to develop these finer qualities. What we expect from life directs our responses and dealings with other people. Apart from how other people treat us, it is our inner urge that drives us to feel love and concern for other people.
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What is offered in love to others be in a subtle manner, without giving feeling of obligation to the receiver. If some help is imparted out of our ego, it may not generate any love for that person. Take care of other person’s worries and find out what makes him/her better. Help in improving self esteem of other person. There are lot of people to find fault if things do not turn out properly. It is our role to make other person feel better against difficulties and odds by enhancing self-esteem and focusing on good things. Do not be quick to point out weakness of a person. This attitude makes other person feel inferior. Take care of sensitivity of a person and make him or her feel better in your company. Subtleness in love is something that is not to be expressed in words but actions speaks of the concern for the other person.
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In the true love towards other person, it involves absolute truthfulness without fear of deception. This requires honesty with the other person. Believe something about the person but express it differently shows lack of honesty. Mind and heart have to be in unison, when we deal with the person, so as to adopt honesty in our thought and deeds. In the matter of dealing with other people, we are influenced by our feelings of love and affection generated through our heart while our mind values the relationship based on mutual benefit. It becomes matter of inner conflict as how much we should give in a relation and how much to receive. At times whatever we express may not be necessarily what we feel about the person. Our relationship at times lacks sensitivity which affects true love.
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To be in love with others is the need of soul, same as food is the need of our body. We always feel urge to connect with the other person through love and feeling of intimacy. Being intimate with others does not mean physical intimacy, but it encompasses broader meaning of better understanding through love and compassion. Intimacy requires that we open our hearts and fill it with the love of the other soul. Love others as your soul mates so as to be in true love with the other person.
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What is this constant need for more in life? Cant we Just be happy with what we have? Curiosity and a desire to push the limits stunt the worthwhile goal of a lasting contentment. In Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina, Anna’s life is spiritually empty, and so she fills it with earthly pleasures (such as adultery) to fill the void. Levin, the other protagonist, also feels throughout the story as though something is missing in his life, but ends up actually discovering what will maintain his happiness in the long run.
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A main theme in the book is whether or not it is possible to preserve a happy life in a healthy way. Both characters, Anna and Levin, demonstrate how and how not to accomplish this. Filled with despair and hopelessness, as well as completeness and awareness, Anna Karenina shows what an effect, whether positive or negative, people can impose upon themselves. We begin with Anna, who sets herself up to be unhappy when she marries Alexei Alexandrovich.
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Women are loving creatures though, and need to be loved in return. Anna’s affair with Vronsky was mere infatuation, but because love was absent from er married life, she at least wanted to feel some flame of passion. She Justifies her actions by saying, “They don’t know how [Alexei] has been stifling my life for eight years, stifling everything that was alive in me, that he never once even thought that I was a living woman who needed love” (292).
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Her point is valid, but in no way does she solve her problem in an effective way. She gets herself into this predicament with Vronsky, instead of trying to find another solution o her discontent. A clandestine affair with another man does not provide happiness, and will actually hamper any desire for fulfillment. Instead it creates guilt and regret for Anna. She does not know where to turn, and satisfying her needs on a daily basis is all that she understands. Another way to look at this is “give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. If Anna learned how to “fish” she would never go hungry again, but instead she is only concerned with eating for one day at a time. The infatuation means nothing in the scheme of er entire life, and leads to her giving up in the end because she doesn’t know how to truly fend for herself. Levin on the other hand, learns to secure a lifetime of fulfillment. Him and Anna are complete opposites in that mainly Anna is irrational and Levin is rational. He does not act on impulse, and instead of engaging in activity that could make him happy for a short amount of time, he learns what it means to find meaningful ways to make living worthwhile.
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Before Levin and Kitty fell in love, he: Was envious of [the peasants’] healthy merriment; he would have liked to take part in expressing [their] Joy of life. But he could do nothing and had to lie there and look and listen. When the peasants and their song had vanished form his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him. This makes the reader empathize with his current dilemma, and his inability to tind anything to give his lite a sense ot wholeness.
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H loneliness is the chief impediment to his happiness. He was wrong in believing that he could get over Kitty (when she denied him at first) and instead find solitude and happiness in the simplicity of life as a farmer. When Levin saw Kittys carriage go by and their eyes met, he realized “there was no other being in the world capable of concentrating for him all the light and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty’. This is a turning point for Levin, because he now has something to live for, a love to hope for to get him through the day.
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This novel shows how love can bring purpose and meaning to someone’s life, and save it from monotony and loneliness from which we as humans try so hard to stray. Later, when he and Kitty finally pronounce their love to each other, their worlds turn upside down, and every word exchanged etween them from then on is uttered with compassion. Levin says, “here was a plea for forgiveness, and trust in him, and a caress, a tender, timid caress, and a promise, and hope, and love for him, in which he could not but believe and which choked him with happiness”.
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To the reader, this is so exciting because after spending so much of his life trying to find what will make him happy, he finally has a sense of greater care towards and understanding of another person. When one observes the love Kitty and Levin have found, it is impossible not to compare it to that supposed love” of Vronsky and Anna. One wonders if Vronsky is actually holding her back from discovering what is important in her life by keeping her in this tangled web of infatuation, where she is fooled into believin she can someday be happy with him.
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Instead, Anna is satisfied for days at a time, but is never completely fulfilled, and finds herself always wanting more. In the later parts of their affair, “even the rare moments of tenderness that occurred between them did not bring her peace: in his tenderness she now saw a tinge of tranquility, of assurance, which had not been here before and which irritated her”. This shows how the momentary pleasure that the affair gave her, will, in the end, not sustain her for a lasting peace.
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Anna does not think carefully about her mental well being very often, which in turn, allows her to drift toward suicide. Every time she remembers the horrible circumstance she has put herself in, she becomes more and more depressed, and blames it on Vronsky. “She blamed him for everything that was difficult in her situation”. She cannot understand what she needs, and putting the blame on someone other than herself ives her comfort that she is not the cause of her unhappiness. Anna’s desperation makes Levin appear as though he has everything fgured out.
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While she gives into her desires, Levin carefully restrains himself in order to discover true happiness. He has obtained love for another, and the next chapter in his life is the pursuit of spirituality. He struggles internally with the concept of faith, and for whom, if there is anyone higher than us, should we live? He has a fascination with the meaning of life, to which Kitty cannot help him with or explain, and “he lived, not nowing and not seeing any possibility of knowing what he was and why he was living in the world, tormented by this ignorance to such a degree that he feared suicide”.
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One sees how much this bothers him, and it seems he will not be able to find peace without knowing what he is doing on this earth. One could see this hunger for the meaning of life, the need for something more in life as what actually stops him from considering suicide. While rationality and curiosity stopped Levin trom killing himselt, Anna gave up on whether or not there is more meaning to lite. She was sick of trying to maintain happiness.
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In her last moments, “the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim, and went out forever”. This is to say, everything that had been tormenting her finally vanished with her death. She would never have to suffer through life again, and her suicide demonstrates a way to eliminate pain, while Levin does instead through contemplation. Anna and Levin were connected in that they did ot know the next step to take in their lives, and Anna chose the easy quickest way out.