Have you ever thought about how one can truly achieve happiness, or simply, what is happiness? Can you you chose to be content or does it just happen? Well, John Stuart Mill, a autobiography writer, believes that contentment can not be found, if one seeks for it. In Mill’s own words, “The only chance it to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, a the purpose of life.” In the autobiography, “Chapter V, A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” by John Stuart Mill, Mill claimed that one will find happiness by the way, not when one is searching for it. Mill stated that “those only are happy who have have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness” (Mill). He presumes that people will find happiness, when
