Happiness

What is happiness?
A word that can be describe in multiple ways and is different for each individual. The statement made by the Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips that, "anyone who could maintain a state of happiness, given the state of the world, is living in a delusion," is very true because no one will always be able to maintain a state of happiness in the world no matter how hard they try. The world we live in today is a complete mess, there is so much chaos. You can try and try to be happy all the time,but things will happen and you will have hard times, eventually it will pass. When something negative is happening to you its hard stay positive and be happy. There are things like having a bad day that is easier to push through it and be happy, but when things happen like losing your job is more difficult to see the happy side in the situation. It's hard to be happy when things like that happen. Also, there are other things like breaking up with someone or getting a divorce and both of these situation can be very hard to get through and no one is going to be happy if they feel like they've lost someone they love. Then, there is losing someone you love it's hard enough to lose someone at any age at any point of time, but when you lose someone you love because they were killed or murdered that is not something that anyone can be happy about.

 In the world today all you here on the news is the shootings and people being murdered and it is hard to even hear that even if it is not someone you know, and when it is someone you know you are not going to be happy. So many families in the last year and this year have lost children, and noticing that it is children, there are high school kids being shot and murdered in today's world and I have been fortunate enough that it hasn't happened near me and I haven't lost someone I love to a shooting. It's hard to see and listen about the things that are going on today in this world because it is tragic. I understand that you can only go forward, pushing through some things and try and be okay about it, some things you just can't push through it and be happy you. There are times that you are going to be sad, you are going to be upset, and you are going to be angry. It is normal to not be happy all the time because you are going to face negative things in life. It is hard and impossible to be happy all of the time, and so that is why I say it is true that if someone is happy all of the time in this world that they are living in a delusion.

In chapter 14, Sunstein states in his article, "That men and women experience increase in their happiness when they get married." (551) It was shown that a couple can be cranky and impatient with their partner, when they are cheerful and friendly to others. Dunn and Norton experience that people have boost in their happiness when they give to others than spending on themselves, as in coming together at a low time for other people that are going through a rough time. Suntein states, " Human beings have a remarkable power to adapt to both bad and good." (553)





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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculm, 2016 Thirteenth Edition. Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen.

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