Analysis Of A Crisis In My Mental History: One Stage Onward By John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill, the author of A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward, proposes a theory that people all over the world who seek happiness aren’t happy since they only think about themselves and assume that happiness can be a choice that can be made easily and pursued forcibly. Mill explains that seeking happiness isn’t the end of the world and isn’t the main goal of living. Mill argues that people who have found happiness are lucky and “have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness” by acknowledging other people's happiness. Mill’s main point on how to be happy is to put others state of being before your own. Furthermore, caring for others happiness brings joy to your own happiness from feeling pleasure, serenity, and gratitude. Honestly, I agree with John Stuart Mill’s views on happiness because of personal experiences, articles that I have read in class, and videos that were shown by my teacher about happiness.
First of all, Happiness isn’t a choice that can be made according to John Stuart Mill and I believe that he is correct since many people in reality aren’t happy from trying to seek happiness, instead they are depressed. Some people have found happiness by expressing gratitude to the people they love, caring for others, and doing the things they enjoy. For example, in the video called The Study of Happiness shows people expressing gratitude to their loved ones which causes a huge increase in statistics of how gratitude can cause happiness. This shows how much gratitude plays a huge role in making a person’s experience happiness since there was a huge impact on the statistics. I can infer that expressing gratitude to your loved ones can be a reason to experience happiness because real