Monday 25 November 2013

Prompt #27 What is happiness?



Happiness can be defined as: the quality or state of being happy or good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.  How do we know if we are happy?  Only you, yourself know if you are happy.  “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!”  You cannot classify a person that is not you as happy or not.  Only you can determine if YOU are happy yourself.

There are many different ways to find happiness.  It varies from person to person. A person can be happy lying all day and watching Spongebob or can be happy playing sports, traveling, fishing, dancing, teaching, or learning etc.  Happiness can be viewed very differently.  Everyone sees happiness differently. 

I think there is no definite way a person can reach happiness.  There are no sets of guidelines or rules to follow so a person can be happy.  Everyone has their ideas of what they should do that can make them reach happiness.  If happiness did need to have some sort of rule, it would be: Do what you love.  Or something like that.  The rule would be very broad and would be interpreted differently for everyone. 

Happiness for someone could be having a family like children, or traveling alone, eating chicken, boat voyages, clubbing, drinking, playing soccer, basketball, swimming, doing math problems.  Sometimes people can have a pessimistic view on happiness or an optimistic view on happiness.  People with a pessimistic view; probably don’t do things that make them happy. 


For me, happiness is defined as anything that will make me smile or laugh.  Which is actually a lot of things.  Everything amuses me and interests me.  Some things may look weird or unenjoyable to some people, but for some reason I find thinks like pens, markers, any school supplies, stickers, Spongebob, shiny things, hoodies, socks with flip flops, anything with dinosaurs, crocodiles or alligators and so much more things tend to make me happy.  I don’t know why, but I am easily happy and even little doodles on random pieces of paper can make my day.

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