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Topic: happiness

In other words, what makes us happy or unhappy is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. Since happiness and unhappiness are states of mind based on your interpretation of events, you can change the state of your mind by supplying your mind with new information. In other words, we can choose new ways on how we interpret things or the events on our life. And when we have done this, we just not able to survive even the most difficult time, but will also come through them with a smile on our faces.
Topic: happiness

One important aspect to experience happiness is by knowing our companions. We believe that the one of the source of our happiness is the people who belong to our circle of life, we are always reminded that “No one is an island” and having worthy companions that will help us even in our painful experience and in our loneliness. “Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is very essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe is not only possible but also probable. In other words, it is very important to remember that, this is not simply having friends and bestfriends or group of friends that can accompany us, but we must know that we need to have friends who are willing to help us, who are always there to listen and supports us. If you are surrounded by people who not only don’t believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy. Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
Topic: happiness

As Buddha taught, “He who walks in the company of fools suffers long way. Company with fools is always painful; company with wise is pleasure. ” In order to experience happiness there is the belief that we must be one with nature, it is stated: The Ancient Sages looked to nature to show them how to live a life of happiness. They taught that oneness with nature and living in harmony with its ways are keys to inner peace. Understanding nature and the laws of the Universe can help you to understand your own essential nature, move with the cycles of your life, and reach the goal of happiness.
Topic: happiness

In other words, in order to experience happiness, we must therefore be one with the nature; we must first acknowledge the presence of nature, because nature will bring us to our very own essence, nature will bring peace to us. Nature here is not simply the nature that we see, but nature here has something to do with the Universe. And in order to understand it, we must first know the very nature of the Universe. We are part of the Universe, we are one with it, and Universe, just as we are aware of a touch on our hands, the Universe is aware of everything we experience, because we are part of it.
Topic: happiness

Now, I would like to focus more on the things that can lead us to a deep happiness. One reason of happiness is our friends, we get friends when we have done something good to them, and they appreciate it, in other words, it is because of our action that makes us happy. And if you’re not happy most of the time, it’s because you are relying on something that you learned should make you happy but isn’t, or there is a condition in your life that is causing you to feel unhappy. And it is important that when we discover the cause of our unhappiness, you can learn ways to avoid bringing about that condition.
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It is very important to know the very root of our unhappiness, because if we can’t find the cause of it, we will suffer allot. But it is also important to recognize that it is really happening to us. “Each incident in life, even a painful experience, basically provides you with only two choices: you can either curse it and call it an “accident” or you can call it ‘good fortune. ’” In other words, it is always depend on us on how to interpret things that is happening to us, it is always on our choice whether we recognize it as something that is beneficial or not.
Topic: happiness

A Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu states, “Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. ” Here, he states the existence of what we called “change”, the only question is, are we ready to adapt to that changes? because “a situation only becomes favorable when one adapts to it. ” It is like a chameleon who can adapt to its nature, which can change his color depends on the place where he was. It is stated that; “Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives. We are powers in and of the Universe.
Topic: happiness

We are able to think, to do, and to create. It is only past conditioning that has taught us to be unhappy about unfolding events. If you respond by being happy, you are happy. ” In other words, even though we are experiencing difficulties in life, we have many problems, and we cannot bear it anymore, one thing that will lead us to happiness is the acceptance that we are happy in spite of the many trials, believing that after suffering comes joy, what we only need is a strong philosophy that is so powerful and joy-giving, a philosophy which enables us to know more of ourselves. A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also sustains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope. It frees us from the tyranny of events. ” One of the greatest obstacles between you and happiness is stress. By stress I mean a feeling in your mind of fear, anxiety, distress, worry, unease, or foreboding caused by using your mind to imagine a bad outcome to a past, present, or future event or situation. Stress will never be completely gone from our lives because of all the negative programming we have taken on, but we can eliminate most of it.
Topic: happiness

The tricky part in eliminating stress is controlling our imaginations to envision a happy outcome rather than a poor one. In other words, stress is our reaction to an event, for example, you have problem with someone and by thinking of it, it gives you so much stress, sometimes, in order to escape stress, we divert ourselves to something, because we have so much things in our mind that need to be relax, and when we control our imagination, and its empower stress, that can lead us to something very helpful, not just that, it can lead us to happiness.
Topic: happiness

By using our imagination, we have control on our mind, by changing our sorrow into joy for example. We must know then that imagination is not enough; we also need to deal with our challenges, believing that these challenges will gain us strength, wisdom, and knowledge. It is also important to understand that in order to experience happiness, we must therefore, heal our past. “We have not learned how to roll time backward to undo or change events of the past. However, we can change the ay we feel about past events so that they stop tormenting us in the present, so that they stop spoiling ‘now’”. In other words, there are still a chance to change everything, we can heal our wounded history and be renewed in order to experience happiness. Healing the past enables someone to be happy in the present. I remember when we are having a retreat at Baguio, I was then a sophomore, and one of the activities during our retreat is be reconciled with ourselves.
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While having that spiritual exercise, I imagine myself as a child, I saw myself crying, and the reason of my tears is because of my stubborn hearts, because I allow myself to be influence by evil, and that’s the reason why I’m suffering during my childhood days, and at that moment, when I already hug the little boy, which is me, and be reconciled with him, I started also to cry like a child, and after that spiritual experience, I truly experience peace and happiness. By letting go of my past and be reconciled with it, I experience true happiness.
Topic: happiness

After reconciling with myself, I am ready to live my “now”, and this is another key to healing our past and to live a happy life, is to live “now”. As Thich Nhat Hanh states, “The present moment is a wonderful moment. ” Lastly, it is very important to be aware that to be happy is simply means we have to choose to be happy whenever we have the choice, that whatever happens, it will always have beneficial to give. We must have the faith that we can do all the things, only we need is to trust ourselves, always put on the mind the saying “You can do it”. That everything that happens to me only happens so that I can be benefited to the maximum amount possible. ” Happiness can be every day, it can be everything, what we only need is to allow ourselves to accept our very own nature. And believe that whatever happens to me, whatever happens, there is something great that can come out that will benefit me. That even in the times of difficulties and trials, I can still manage myself and will always found happiness there in, and welcome every moment of my life with a true smile on my face.
Topic: happiness

I sat there, in my chair, and stared in wonder at my creation. A smile suddenly had appeared on my face, as I realised the magnitude of my creation. I could achieve greatness, it was all in the palm of my hands, and I was going to hold it tight. I suppose the whole thing had been an accident, for I had never intended to create such a thing, but what a thing to create. Since I was a very small child, I was always building things, and coming up with ideas.
Topic: happiness

When I was four, I heard on TV that all atoms contained light, and so I realised they must contain heat, which is energy. I designed a machine that could be used for a car, by sucking in atoms; the machine could then split them, and take the energy out. Of course, I had no idea that the energy was so huge, it caused a nuclear explosion. The idea didn’t work for a car, but without realising it, I had made a nuclear bomb, at only four years of age.
Topic: happiness

Has any one ever paid attention in art lessons? Remember how to change a 2D square into a 3D square. Well, if this is possible, then it must be possible to change a 3D square into a 4D square! I had recognised the fourth dimension. At the time I was trying to draw the fourth dimension for an art project, but what started on paper, turned into a small model, which then became a full size Time Machine!!! An idea suddenly hit me.
Topic: happiness

I was in year 10, and waiting my year 11 mock GCSE exams, and of course, my real GCSE’s, which I failed on before. It had worked, the time machine had taken me back to when I was just a kid. And what was more, I had changed appearance to what I used to look like, so I fitted right in. I then travelled to the days of my exams, sneaked the papers back to year 10, 27th April 2003. With the papers, I was able to work out the answers and cheat on all my exams, though being cautious to make a few mistakes to make no suspicion.
Topic: happiness

Having breezed through my exams, I would go to the future, copy down the lotto numbers, and then go back a week and buy a ticket. Eventually I lost count of the amount of times I had done it, but it was way over 400. Years passed, and I had all the money I would ever need, girls that loved me (or my money), and anything that would pass my fancy I would buy. If I wanted something I would click my fingers, and it would be done for me straight away. For you, this must sound like heaven, and it was: – eternal boredom.
Topic: happiness

My life became pointless, and I began to get fat, and I realised that there was nothing that I could buy, except meaningful happiness. Too much of a good thing gets boring, so like a one-hit-wonder pop singer, I disappeared with the wind. Life was meant to be hard to keep us on our toes. I now lay here alone, with no one buy my side, and finished my life, while I still was sane. The fourth dimension was hidden for a reason, and I suggest you don’t go looking for it. I leave you now, as the rope tightens around my neck. One rock of the chair I stand on, and I am gone.
Topic: happiness

One has achieved success who has lived well and laughed often. This quote seems to sum up what is meant by success. If you are able to laugh often and much then you have definitely achieved happiness. The idea of living well, though, is a very broad statement. In order, then, to define success in relation to this statement, we must first define what it means to live well. There are three levels of success, in my opinion: societal success, personal success, and academic or professional success.
Topic: happiness

There is only one success… to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. This quote by Christopher Morley describes what is really meant by personal success. Personal success has to do with being happy. One can only be truly happy if they are happy and secure with themselves. Personal success is about being yourself and not being afraid to do so. It is about not letting others dictate your life or make you feel that you have to change who you are. It is about gaining self confidence and maintaining it.
Topic: happiness

It is about being able to draw strength from yourself ,and not needing affirmation from anyone. It is about being able to stay happy, even on the days when the phone doesn t ring. Personal success is also about setting goals for yourself and reaching them through hard work, dedication and sacrifice. Achieving personal success is the only way to achieve real happiness and peace with yourself. Personal success is about liking yourself and accepting who you are. This is the most important level of success. Without this kind of success and self acceptance it would be hard to succeed in other aspects of life.
Topic: happiness

Another important aspect of live is our academic and/or professional lives. It is something that is on going ,and it is what we most often identify the word success with. We most often identify success with being wealthy and important in the professional world. Academic success, though, is about doing one s best; it is about making the most of our potential. It is about hard work, and knowing that you worked to get where you are. It is about being happy in your career and satisfied in your accomplishments, whether they are academic or occupational.
Topic: happiness

Professional success includes being happy with the choices you have made, and being proud of what you have done. It is about keeping interested in your own career, whatever it is. Academic success is about getting the grades that one wants. Succeeding academically or professionally is about knowing you sacrificed to get what you want and where you want and realizing that hard work leads to happiness. This kind of success, just as all levels of success, is about setting goals and never letting them out of sight. As Benjamin Disraeli said The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Topic: happiness

It is about knowing what you want, doing whatever it takes to get it and never giving up. If all three levels of success can be reached then one has learned what it is to live well. Success only truly comes with being happy. Happiness and success are the accomplices of one another. You cannot have one without the other. Happiness brings success, and success brings even more happiness. Success, in the dictionary, is defined as the achievement of something desired planned or attempted. Therefore, success cannot be judged by anyone than oneself. It is a personal thing.
Topic: happiness

It is the realization of goals, desires or plans made by one s self. It is not measurable and yet is something we always use to compare others or appraise someone s worth. Success, in one form or another, is something that we will always be striving for. For some people it is something they will do subconsciously, and for others it will be something they will constantly labour for. Because success is something that is different for everyone, it is best that we measure our personal success by our own sense of self worth. To have succeeded is to have lived as you wanted; it is to have lived well and laughed often!
Topic: happiness

This may sounds funny to you but I always do this to people, who are experiencing suffering, pain and problems in their lives, I always remind them a verse in the bible that states, give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you, Psalm55:22. This only proves that we must not carry all the burdens, problems we are experiencing right now. Just trust in the Lord and do not lean on your own understanding. We are created by God as a human with imperfections and that we cannot control all the things here on Earth.
Topic: happiness

The only thing we can do to those things that are out of our control and power is to surrender it all to God. Life is full of miracles. And if you expect a lot, expect also that there is always disappointment but that does not matter anymore because the good thing there is, you already know how to deal with life. Laugh, cry, sigh, but don’t forget to smile again. Laugh at your mistakes. Do not be too hard on yourself. Everything here on Earth is temporary so be happy for everything. If you are experiencing suffering at this moment just think of this “everything is temporary”.
Topic: happiness

This Earth is permanent and all things here will come to pass by. Thus, instead of complaining, thank God for he is just molding you to be a better person than you are today. Thank God for every breath you take and for every heartbeat. Praise God for all the sufferings, who knows? It is just a blessing in disguise. You may not understand it now but when time comes you will realize how better his plan is for you than what you are planning for yourself. Be happy! And always be thankful for everything has a reason. Always put in your mind that happiness is your choice!
Topic: happiness

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ” This opening line summarizes the character’s intentions throughout the story. Pride and Prejudice is set in a time where marriage defines one’s value, so the entire plot revolves around the sacred union. From cover to cover, the idea of marriage corresponding with happiness dictates the actions of every character. Because of the culture of the day, every Bennett sister is expected to marry and settle into a higher class family than her own.
Topic: happiness

Contrary to their mother’s incessant nettling, four of the five Bennett sisters marry by the end of the book. Charlotte and Mr. Collins, Lydia and Wickham, Jane and Bingley, and Elizabeth and Darcy are the happily wedded couples in Pride and Prejudice. But are all of them really happy together? In fact, only one couple marries because they find true love. For this reason, Elizabeth and Darcy will be the happiest together.
Topic: happiness

A transformation of feelings is evident when Darcy describes his change of heart, “But that was only when I first knew her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance”(229). Elizabeth’s feelings toward Darcy are not as open, but as the foundation of their relationship builds she can no longer silence the desires of her heart. By navigating through the obstacles thrown into the path of the couple’s developing relationship, genuine friendship forms. Meaningful friendship and mutual respect are the missing components in the other marriages.
Topic: happiness

The depth of Darcy and Elizabeth’s bond will lead them to a peaceful and lasting marriage. Another factor in the couple’s happiness is the uncommon compatibility that exists between the two. Elizabeth said it best when she describes Darcy as “”the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her”(264). Their charismatic similarities are vast. Both Elizabeth and Darcy are bold, confident, and remain independent of society’s expectations. The chemistry between them intensifies with every encounter in the story. Read what to do f you find a path with no obstacles
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It is so profound that the reader is glued to the pages waiting for the moment when they finally unite in marriage. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy turn love into an individual act rather than a social one. They ignore the laws of society and pursue their affections whole-heartedly. Elizabeth is quite convincing when she declares “There can be no doubt of that. It is settled between us already that we are to be the happiest couple in the world”(319). Because of the authentic friendship and effortless rapport that exist between the couple, their union is destined to be eternal.
Topic: happiness

MATERIALISM AND HAPPINESS IN AMERICA: THE GATSBY ERA AND TODAY Materialism: attention to or emphasis on material objects, needs or considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual values. The acquisition of material has been equated with happiness in this country. This is true today, and it was true during the 1920’s, the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. That the majority of Americans believe that wealth and happiness are the same is a result of our market economy that encourages consumption and conditions us to think that we need material possessions to be happy.
Topic: happiness

Life isn’t easy. There isn’t a cheat sheet or instructions to tell you how to sail through life smoothly. Although life has its ups and downs, there are experiences that will keep you afloat. I believe happiness is a choice and anyone has the ability to create lasting happiness for themselves. There was a time in my life when things were grimm. As nice as it would have been to have my very own “easy button” from Staples, I learned that people and my environment can make life worthwhile.
Topic: happiness

This was something my dad always brought up. It stressed me out, and I was losing aspirations left and right. Six years ago I made my first real, kind, and loyal best friend. Her name was Casi. Every day I looked forward to elementary school but then came the time when junior high was finally over and we had to move onto bigger and scarier things, like high school. If there was a word to describe high school, it would be “bitter”.
Topic: happiness

I never failed to recognize toxicity in my relationships. Selfish and untrustworthy people did me more harm than good by just being around. Friends come and go. It is a bittersweet reality. In actuality, Casi and I weren’t great friends in elementary school. We had a lot of issues with one another because of one bleak person. I came home to my dad expressing how I felt and he said something I’ll never forget.
Topic: happiness

Throughout the years I have found out that happiness is not a goal that can be attained through materialistic things. Instead finding a dream, a purpose, or a hobby, is a great starting point to the road of happiness. If there is something to look forward to, then it’s something worth leaving the past behind for. So I created a new goal for myself, to enter High School and make the next four years of my life worthwhile. Besides a purpose in life, I found new interests like music and photography. I’ve strengthened my passion for art as well. Passion is the drive to create no matter the outcome. Passion is studying birds for so long you forget to use the restroom. Passion is the joy that radiates from creating things. My passion is art. It has been a positive influence in my life ever since I can remember. It is a great way to express my emotions and feelings.
Topic: happiness

Happiness comes in all shapes and sizes. Mine came in the shape of family, friends, golf, dogs, music, and art. I found new friends who are positive, loyal, and kind. Having a place in life really makes an individual feel special and I think I’ve found mine. What I’m trying to say is, “Happiness is like a random package delivery, it might take some of them longer to get to you, but it will come. There will be bumps in the road; obstacles that will try to ruin my day, but if there are others who have it way worse than I do and can shake it off with a smile, then I can too.” -Shay Carl Life shouldn’t be tolerated. In fact, life is like an amusement park. We come across rides that at first look daunting and make us feel sick but once we get to the top and look around we find out that the ride is even better than we could have imagined.
Topic: happiness

He said, “Norms are powerful ways of understanding and predicting what people will do” (McLeod). For example, if a group of people gives high fives to every person that walks by them and other people start to join, we can assume that everyone else will sooner or later follow because they don’t want to feel left out. McLeod had also explained how norms make us act differently to be a part of something bigger, “Human beings need norms to guide and direct their behavior, to provide order and predictability in social relationships and to make sense of an understanding of each other’s actions” (McLeod).
Topic: happiness

When we see somebody else following a social norm, we understand their actions clearly and the social relationships with each other become stronger. It helps provide order because nobody will be doing something that is hurting our society and is possibly wrong. Mcleod had also explained how conformity functions in our society by stating that we all have social roles that we do not understand fully such as being a daughter, for example. As a daughter, we are expected to be the best daughter to be seen and try to get the approval we want from others. But sometimes we make decisions that we think is right that are disapproved by society. In order to fit in, we follow the conformity and try to act against our wills. Conformity is a big part of society which makes people make decisions that control their life forever. We feel as we need to be part of our society because they are afraid of what would happen if they didn’t.
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On the other hand, social norms can be harmful to our society or community because it makes us commit bad decisions. Adhip Poudyal wrote an article that explained how it was good and bad, and how it changes our life or society called, “Importance of Social Values and Role.” This explains how we act in our culture or how norms set our life to be as it is today. Poudyal had said, “Following them properly will frame us to be a useful person in our society whereas ignoring them will definitely lead us to spoil our precious life” (Poudyal). He had tried to explain how we as humans are created because of social norms and when we try to think as it is wrong, it ruins our lives. Following social norms makes us be a better person and part of something that can make us fit in. Having negative thoughts and thinking social norms are wrong will make us have a harder life and we feel alienated by the rest of society. In his article, he had also discussed about the use of drugs that ruin our society and isn’t good to have as a norm of our life. Poudyal said, “Today, many youths are not following social norms and values and are on drugs and various addiction” (Poudyal). This causes a major problem in our society and is very harmful because of how teenagers are following what others are doing which they think it is right, but really is wrong. This tends to cause humans to betray their culture or how they are supposed to act and make the wrong decisions which cause their personalities and lives to be at stake.
Topic: happiness

According to Bahmari (2010), if you feel a happiness you can’t under on depression,because the willingness of person to be happy ,you should not felt depressed. The result revealed thar the mean of academic achievement of girls is higher than the boys. And there have a positive relationship between happiness and achievement for the both boys and girls students. They observed the different types of student in every courses. And according to Safa’ra and Dejkam(2004). State that the happiness rate of females is more broaden than the males,and also the happiness of every married students is higher than the single students.
Topic: happiness

According to Arad, Barzilay, and Perchik (2018), the research found out that the use of facebook does not have an impact to the user’s estimation of the frequency of others’ positive and negative experiences, as compared to one’s own. They found also that an increased consultation in social comparison combined with a belief that others’ lives are richer in positive experiences than one’s own, causes users to be less happy than non-user’s.
Topic: happiness

I think positive emotions are the most difficult emotions to maintain. This is probably because happiness is fleeting and pain is more permanent because in my life so far, I find that the difficult times are more vivid than the good times because of the strength of the negative emotions I felt then. Or maybe that’s just me. Now that I think about it, I have experienced strong positive emotions as well like the time I got a high score after studying really hard for a test or the time I was praised by my parents for doing something good.
Topic: happiness

The first thing I think of when I see the word engagement is a promise of marriage but I’m too young for that sort of thing. The next thing I think of is feeling immersed in something to the point that your brain feels like it is working perfectly and you can understand everything you read/hear and know that you will be able to recall it afterwards with no problem. I really like this feeling because I feel like I am functioning at 100% capacity which is a very satisfying feeling.
Topic: happiness

I feel like I’m at the stage in my life where I’m just figuring out relationships in every sense of the word. As I grow older, I learn more about the people around me and it influences the way I see them, which in turn influences how I think about and act towards them. When I was younger I used to think of my parents as gods that would always be there for me and could do no wrong. Now as I get older, I realize that that’s not true. This doesn’t mean they’re not good parents, I just realized that they’re human, they make mistakes too and sometimes they can be wrong too. I also realized that people grow apart. Some of the people I used to be friends with in middle school are no longer my friends and that’s okay. As for romantic relationships, that’s a can of worms I’d rather not think about.
Topic: happiness

There’s a quote I read when I was younger and it has stuck with me until now: “The meaning of life is to give it meaning.” For a while I thought that was really childish because isn’t the meaning of one’s life already defined? I mean, we always get told that school -> graduate -> job -> family -> children -> grow old -> die. Isn’t that what life is about? There’s no need to look for meaning, it’s there already, spelled out for us. Now I think differently. I feel a bit lost to be honest. Now that I’m in high school, I know that I should start figuring my life out and find what I want to do in the future since the next step after this is college. Moving, living alone, and forging your own path, that sort of thing. The problem is, I don’t know what path I should take. My parents tell me I should take a course which could easily get me a job like business or accounting. My friends tell me “follow your passion” and I’m here like “what???” Why do I have to choose just one thing? Why do I have to limit myself to just one course? Why can’t I like everything? But the world doesn’t work that way.
Topic: happiness

I really like this word. Accomplishment. It’s because the sense of pride I feel in myself whenever I accomplish something is probably one of the best feelings in the world. It makes me see that I have talents, it makes me see that I can do things if I put my mind to it, it makes me see that I can believe in myself. What a wonderful feeling. However, there is something about accomplishment I don’t like. I don’t like it when people compare the accomplishments of others and decide that someone is better or less than someone else just because they have more or less accomplishments. I think that’s the wrong way of evaluating people because we all have different abilities and circumstances so what we accomplish varies greatly and shouldn’t be used to determine our worth. What’s sad is that very few people think like this. I mean, companies judge job candidates based on accomplishments, parents judge prospective in-laws with accomplishments, and so on which is, just, really sad. Accomplishments aren’t going to do the work for the company nor are they the ones that will raise your grandson/granddaughter. Just saying.
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I think our body is the most important thing in the world because without our physical health, we won’t be able to do anything. It is perfectly explained by one of Warren Buffett quotes where he talks about a genie who gives him a car but the car has to last for his entire lifetime. Buffett states that if that were the case, he would take care of that car, always get it tuned up, and would be careful when using it. This is the same as our reality he then says. We only have one body and “it’s what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate ten, twenty, and thirty years from now.” As for happiness, well, I think it is a concept that people shouldn’t stake their lives on. What I mean with this is that when you ask someone what they want, the usual answer is “I want to be happy.” But what is happiness? Is it joy? Is it the absence of suffering? Mill would say it’s the absence of pain but pain is necessary for us to grow. Without pain we wouldn’t know what happiness is. I think a better term would be security. If you have financial security than you know you can face any financial troubles that might come your way. If you have physical security, you know your body can withstand most things. Thus I think security is a better term to use than happiness.
Topic: happiness

I think the first step to global happiness is to have all humans believe one simple thing: All of us are equal because we are all human beings. This means that nobody is less than someone because of their skin color, or their race, or their religion, or their gender, or their mother tongue, or their eye shape, and so on. Additionally, this also means that just because someone has a different opinion doesn’t make them less than you if their opinion is wrong, because their opinion doesn’t change the fact that they are still human. Once we achieve this, then a lot of the world’s problems which lead to unhappiness would be resolved. However, there are a lot of barriers to this. For one, the free market would take a hit if women suddenly decided they didn’t need makeup anymore to look like someone else. Others, especially those that were raised to believe in inequality, would find it hard to change their ingrained beliefs. Nevertheless, though it may seem like a very unrealistic goal, I still believe that once we see other people as no different from us, the world will be a happier place.
Topic: happiness

“Poverty heightens people’s risks for a slew of negative life outcomes, including worsened health,” Piff explains. “Wealth doesn’t guarantee you happiness, but it may predispose you to experiencing different forms of it — for example, whether you delight in yourself versus in your friends and relationships. These findings suggest that lower-income individuals have devised ways to cope, to find meaning, joy and happiness in their lives despite their relatively less favourable circumstances.”
Topic: happiness

The Channel 5 programme ‘Rich House, Poor House’ explores Britain’s extreme wealth divide and brings light on the big question of does money really buy happiness. In order to see what life is like on the other side, a family that ranks in the top ten per cent of Britain’s wealthiest households trades homes, lifestyles and budgets with a family from the bottom ten per cent. As the experiment progresses the families follow each other’s typical spending habits and extra-curricular activities to learn if the grass really is greener.
Topic: happiness

Financial freedom allows people to have control over their own lives with the ability to spend money on things that are going to aid in their own personal joy due to an increased disposable income. Contrary to popular beliefs money can buy happiness, too large a percentage of the population only think that material goods will bring them happiness, however this pleasure is usually temporary due to the Hedonic Treadmill theory. The best way to be happy by spending money is by spending it on experiences or outings; ‘it’s been proven that experiences make us happier than material possessions’.5 San Francisco State University have carried out research verifying this, when ‘people spent money on experiences rather than material items were happier and felt the money was better spent’.6 The happiness that comes with material goods is short lived whereas the happiness that that comes with the making of new memories can last a lifetime.
Topic: happiness

So Modern Family is an American family series which is created by Mr. Christopher Lloyd and Mr. Steven Levitan. It is an situational comedy presented as a form of mockumentary. Mockumentary is a type of TV show which takes a topic and shows it humorously in documentary form. So, this show entertains through its humour and teaches us life lesson at the same time. Show is all about the drift and drags of life of Jay Pritchett and his family. Jay Pritchett is retired closet business owner. Family includes Jay’s 2nd wife, their teenage son, his daughter and son in law and his homosexual adult son.
Topic: happiness

Whole show is centred around these 3 families. Although they are living as a nuclear family, they are very close to each other. Whenever anyone of the family is in trouble everyone is ready to help. Their cross family bonding is so strong that through them we as an individual as well as a part of family can learn many things. Dunphy family is the family with Jay’s daughter. Dunphy family includes Phil, Claire and their 1 son and 2 daughters. Tucker-Pritchett family includes Jay’s homosexual son Mitchell and his partner Cameron and their adopted daughter Lilly. This is some briefing about the show.
Topic: happiness

I like this show and I want to be in this show because it teaches me various life lesson through the humour. It has been 7 years since I have been living outside my home town for academic purpose and there are couple of times which reminds me of my home town. At these moments not even chat with my family gives me that much of satisfaction as this TV series gives. Reason is that by watching “Modern Family”, I relate my life to the storyline of the show. I become the part of the show while watching it. There are failures in our life, but those failures should not demoralize you. Whole family is always together to support each other, when it comes to failure. This show makes me realise that even new shift could create new trend or new culture in our society, but we should have faith in ourselves and move along. The best part of the show “Modern Family” is the formation of 3 types of family from a single one. Surviving through every huddles you come around. Loving each other no matter what your gender or preferences are.
Topic: happiness

Fighting with each other but being there for each other at the time of crisis. And for the viewers the show is such that whoever you maybe you can correlate with any one of the member of Modern family. The word “Modern” is in the most positive context as the Jay who is a retired business man is married to young beautiful women. Chemistry between them is so beautiful that it raised my emotions of perceiving cuteness. And also Jay’s homosexual son is stays with his partner Cameron. This made me realise that there is nothing there in stereotyping someone. But it is hard to compliment the person whom you are stereotyping. And the good part is when you compliment them their gratitude will make you blissful. In the Dunphy family both husband and wife try to implement good parenting required for their children. Their life is like a rollercoaster ride. Romance between Phil and Claire justified me that how you can takeout time for your loved ones, even though you have a busy life and lots of work to complete.
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I want to be the part of such a great show which helps audience to learn the fact that families are not separated by their thoughts but rather they are joint by their believe, love and courtesy. Each character in the show is more than their identity markers due to which conversation between them becomes more dynamic and that adds more humour to the show. The prime thing that this show teaches us is that “No family is perfect and this family is also not perfect. They just know how to love and never give up on each other”. At the end, the only thing we need is to be happy. Subjectivity of the happiness depends on the individual basis.
Topic: happiness

Many of the time we mistake that more money will give us more happiness. Today we now that U.S.A. is of 19.39 trillion dollar economy, but if we talk about World’s Happiness Index U.S.A. is not even in the top 10 list. It is at the 18th position of the World’s Happiness Report given by United Nation. This proves that more money will not bring happiness. In Modern Family Pritchett family is also a rich family. But they stay at the sub urban of California. Happiness is not brought on monetary basis. Through this show I learnt that happiness lies in every small things that allures. Happiness is cherishing every moment of your life. Happiness is a meal with your whole family. Happiness is gifting something for your loved ones after their success. Happiness is celebrating your life and thanking god for you being part of such a life.
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I want to be the part of the show to experience this love among the family. I want to meet the artist who are starring in the show and want to know their opinions about their character they are playing and what all the things they are doing to play their character. I want to about the efforts made by them to make this show more productive and emotional. My favourite character in this show is Manny Delgado, who is the first son of Gloria Pritchett. The reason why I like this character is that he is very benevolent in nature and he has a very kind heart. He has an empathic character. And the beauty of this character is enhanced as Mr. Rico Rodriguez plays him flawlessly. I want to know Mr. Rico Rodriguez whether or not he is same as his character.
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There is a beautiful quotation from this show “Modern Family”. Quotation goes like this ” We do strange things for the people we love. We lie to them, we lie for them. There may be some bumps along the way, but we never stop our want to get what’s best for them. That’s what makes this such a tough job, kind of the best job in the world.” So, if I would be given a chance to be on Modern Family, I would definitely be there. We can learn a lot by this show whether it be a Phil’s antics and Clair’s craziness.
Topic: happiness

For my research project, I have been comparing two libraries in two very different communities. My theory is that stronger community resources lead to lower crime rates. This assignment called for the use of GSS data, but unfortunately the data provided by GSS did not lend itself to test my current theories, therefore I had to look at other issues and make inferences from that data. Failing to find any questions regarding libraries specifically, I searched the terms “books” and “happy”.
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I am inferring that the happier someone is, the less likely they are to commit crime. I found an interaction from the variable “SOCREL”, which measures how often people spent time with their family. Again, I am making inferences from this data, that those who are spending more time with their families are not out committing crimes. I am shifting my theory to one symbolic interactionism theory in this paper, and I think it is reasonable to say that books are themselves symbols which people in turn use to enrich their lives and find meaning when their social support is lacking.
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A composite weight variable, or COMPWT was used to generate the tables. COMPWT is the product of three other variables: WTSSALL adjusted for how many adults were in the household, and OVERSAMP controls for the oversampling of blacks between the years of 1982 and 1987, and FORMWT is a variable that adjusts for problematic sampling methods and surveys between the years of 1978 to 1985.
Topic: happiness

Of those who only see their family members several times per year, 100% of those who read a book were either very happy or pretty happy, but that number fell to 90.3% if those participants hadn’t read a book. The rate of happiness fell further when people only saw their family once per year, with 60% of those who read a book were very happy and only 40% were pretty happy. 11.1% of people who did not read a book and also did not see their families more than once a year reported being “not too happy”, and that number rose to 100% when they never saw their families, whether a book was read or not.
Topic: happiness

When the SOCREL was not included in the analysis, there was no difference in happiness between people who read or who don’t read books. However, when you look at the analysis of people who don’t spend time with family very often, books do have an effect on their happiness. Therefore one could infer that those who lack social support from their families are able to find support in the form of books. Outside of the books themselves, the notion of family is in and of itself its own symbol. Symbolic interactionism theory would say that humans react to the meaning certain symbols have for them. Those who value the symbolic nature of family will of course be emotionally impacted when they are unable to see their family members. The value of a book increases when that is a person’s primary source of emotional fulfillment, and at that point it becomes a more valued symbol and has a more drastic impact on that person’s life and happiness. Coming back to my original theory, one could infer that those without either social support in the form of their families, or the symbolic support that one can find in books, a person could find themselves in a state of anomie and turn to crime in order to find meaning, or in the context of gang violence, a sense of community or family.
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Human life begins with the purpose of following some directions towards any goal and dream that is most prior to, meanwhile leaning to these goals/dreams there comes dependency over many factors of life on which most influential stories of today’s contemporary world movies revolve around. As in the post-moderate era with the prime changes of societal facts, human desires have been changed. To accomplish a meaningful life with spontaneous prosperity has become one of the prior achievements which incline every human life.
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Though human life revolves around a cycle. But every individual has gotten a different question paper with different questions, which could be answered differently by different colored pens. Fixing one bullet in every nutshell customizes difficulties of many types that lead to a new phenomenal issue. Such as in the era of palceism/statuesque if one does not have enough money, can’t meet the requirement of the society and cannot fulfill all of the desires, how can he or she become part of any required status. So what happens then it leads to dissatisfaction and depression co-relatively put all the black shades upon the head of dreams and goals. Undoubtedly, looking beyond the capacity of life realities does have drawbacks and that can’t be met through easy ways.
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Art is beautiful, no matter what, It is detrimental that everyone creates art to express themselves, especially those who struggle. I set out to support this. My lifestyle is rather strange to most. I enjoy horror movies may be too much. I own a lot of horror action figures such as Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, and I have a set with Freddy and Jason on a bridge from Freddy vs. Jason. It fair to say that I am a horror movie buff.