Definition Essay About Happiness

What is happiness? You can ask this question to a thousand people, and you’ll get a thousand answer . These answers are usually versions of one another, tweaked ever so slightly to custom fit to our own personal lives and experiences. That’s the thing, there is no one definition of happiness, no key, no shortcut, no one ultimate explanation, everyone has their own adaptation.

“Happiness is not having any expectations.” That is Ana’s definition of happiness. I had met her in the Dominican Republic over last winter break. She had come from France to vacation here with her family where I got to know her playing beach volleyball. We ended spending the entire day together doing an assortment of activities, activities that included drinking …show more content…
I had asked him the question while we were hanging out for the last time before he moved to Texas for school. We were sitting on a roof of a building in the city, smoking a cigar and talking about life of past and future. “Happiness for me is being surrounded by people who care about me; with people who reciprocate the same amount of love and affection as I do to them.” He explains that he could care less about being popular as long as he has a core group of friends and family that will always have his back. He doesn’t want to end up like his dad, who has only his wealth and a wife that really is with him for his …show more content…
I define it by being able to travel. It’s not so much the concept of traveling itself that feeds my existential happiness, it’s what I experience while traveling. I’ve always loved to travel, but it wasn’t until my first solo trip to New York City that I came to terms with finding happiness. Being there alone taught me to have complete trust in myself and my judgements. It built my confidence, which at the time, was dwindling. I learned these two things while traveling, both equate to my definition of happiness: Being free and independent, in an environment that promotes my sense of