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Happiness

Do any of us truly know what it means to be happy? We base our lives around it. We strive for greatness. All we want in life is to be happy, but the word is kinda ‘greek’ to us. We know what it is and we know its there but we don’t really know the real meaning.

Starting from a young boy all we can dream is having the perfect life. We want to job of our dreams. We want the princess of a wife like in the fairy tales, but as we get older we realize we can not have that. We tend to think money can bring us happiness. As a kid yes because the only thing we can think about spending it on is toys. As we grow up thats when it changes. Our clothes start to cost more we have more needs and desires to satisfy. Then come the bills. So then would money be bringing us happiness at that point or is it bringing us less stress. If we think about happiness as a joyful feeling than the only way money is going to bring a person happiness is if you have a lot of it and don’t have to worry about falling behind at all.

The definition of happy is the feeling of pleasure and contentment. It seems it would be easier to achieve happiness this way. If we think of it as being content it would be a lot easier. We would not need all the money in the world. We would only need just enough to make us stable to we can be content. The only way to be content is to set goals that are possible to achieve don’t set them to a standard where you won’t be able to succeed set little goals and progress over time so there more success and that way you can be more content with how things are. So in the long run you can be “happy”.

I have seen all of this first hand. As I grew up i lived in dublin a wealthy suburb of columbus i was given everything as i kid and could do what i wanted to do. Once my seventh grade year started my mother lost her job and we had to move out of our house and into an apartment. I was still “happy” then because my parents were still able to support my sister and I in every way possible. the end of my eighth grade year was when things started to fall apart. My dad had a heart attack and the =n had to stop working. my mom was able to get another job though. As high school came along time got harder i was still able to play sports because my grandpa helped pay. Spring of my freshman year was by far the worst when my father had a second heart attack and passed away. I had to start working and going to school i was really hard on me and i was feeling the affects because I was looking at trying to always be happy but in the wrong terms. I was making unachievable goals I wanted everything i couldn’t have in which was setting me up for failure and sadness. I took a while but thats when I took a set back and thought about it and set new goals thought about what was gonna work what i could to at the time. I started to look at happiness as contentment and what I needed to do to be there.

We believe we all need to take a step back and reevaluate how we perceive being happy. We need to know things happen for a reason and we just need to find new ways to cope with them so we can be content and find new ways to find the pleasure in life. Once we put all these things together we are on the track to being happy. Happiness comes and goes but if we try to hold on to tight and try to always find it we are gonna find ourselves missing it.