Happiness is the principal, most essential goal to reach in life. Some people believe that it is obtained by fame, wealth, working hard at a job, meeting a soulmate, etc. However, it is your close relationships that affect it. Healthy, joyous, mutually loving relationships that make our life a life worth living. This essay will primarily consist of happiness. What is it? How do you achieve it? Why is it important? And the meaningfulness of relationships in the journey to find complete and utter joy. Happiness; a pure and incredible feeling is a pretty complicated sensation.
According to the Oxford dictionary, happiness is “the state of being satisfied with something that is good or right.” Sounds simple, doesn't it? It's not. Being content with your daily life becomes harder and harder by each passing day. If you are happy with your life you feel it; in your body, your mind, and your soul. You …show more content…
After watching Robert Waldinger’s conference about Harvard’s 75-year old study of happiness I came to a conclusion, the same as his. “Good relationships keeps us healthier and happier and loneliness kills (Waldinger, 2018).” As said before, the people with whom you build relationships with impact your happiness; if not your whole life. The 75-year old study reaffirms that positive, healthy, and loving relationships are excellent for your happiness and even your health ("Happiness & health", 2018). We need to realize that happiness depends greatly on those close relationships, a quick fix, something that will make us happy and keep us that way does not exist. Relationships are complicated, they are messy, they are not perfect. Nothing ever is. Likewise, you influence your happiness too. As Ralph Marston once said “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from
According to the Oxford dictionary, happiness is “the state of being satisfied with something that is good or right.” Sounds simple, doesn't it? It's not. Being content with your daily life becomes harder and harder by each passing day. If you are happy with your life you feel it; in your body, your mind, and your soul. You …show more content…
After watching Robert Waldinger’s conference about Harvard’s 75-year old study of happiness I came to a conclusion, the same as his. “Good relationships keeps us healthier and happier and loneliness kills (Waldinger, 2018).” As said before, the people with whom you build relationships with impact your happiness; if not your whole life. The 75-year old study reaffirms that positive, healthy, and loving relationships are excellent for your happiness and even your health ("Happiness & health", 2018). We need to realize that happiness depends greatly on those close relationships, a quick fix, something that will make us happy and keep us that way does not exist. Relationships are complicated, they are messy, they are not perfect. Nothing ever is. Likewise, you influence your happiness too. As Ralph Marston once said “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from