“Failure is everywhere. It's just that most of the time we'd rather avoid confronting that fact.”(Oliver Burkeman, 1) This essay resembles the higher thinking in happiness and what happiness really is. This essay describes how often times happiness is over looked by the need and want for perfection.
“Yet there are problems with this outlook, aside from just feeling disappointed when things don't turn out well” (Burkeman, 1). People too often give up on things that at the time don’t make them happy and they don’t consider the happiness they may receive having stuck it out to perfect that one task or item. In the essay they describe the museum of failed products. They tell how people gave up on these items for an idea of a higher happiness or because while they created it they thought of the happiness it could bring but realized soon after that the happiness they so expected wasn’t what it was made out to be.
“In order to be truly happy, it turns out, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions – or, at the very least, to stop running quite so hard from them” (Burkeman, 1). Most people will leave when things start to get tough and this quote suggests that instead of running and instead of giving up on them we should indefinitely try …show more content…
We as humans often need to remind ourselves of the negative effects of what could happen when trying to ensure our own happiness is achieved. We have to remind ourselves that we could potentially lose all that we have worked for in giving up. It would be in our interest to adapt to our situations and work harder for our happiness. We often come up with excuses and instead of doing so we should realize that happiness isn’t always feeling good it’s doing what’s right and it’s about doing what will keep you happy long term not just
“Yet there are problems with this outlook, aside from just feeling disappointed when things don't turn out well” (Burkeman, 1). People too often give up on things that at the time don’t make them happy and they don’t consider the happiness they may receive having stuck it out to perfect that one task or item. In the essay they describe the museum of failed products. They tell how people gave up on these items for an idea of a higher happiness or because while they created it they thought of the happiness it could bring but realized soon after that the happiness they so expected wasn’t what it was made out to be.
“In order to be truly happy, it turns out, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions – or, at the very least, to stop running quite so hard from them” (Burkeman, 1). Most people will leave when things start to get tough and this quote suggests that instead of running and instead of giving up on them we should indefinitely try …show more content…
We as humans often need to remind ourselves of the negative effects of what could happen when trying to ensure our own happiness is achieved. We have to remind ourselves that we could potentially lose all that we have worked for in giving up. It would be in our interest to adapt to our situations and work harder for our happiness. We often come up with excuses and instead of doing so we should realize that happiness isn’t always feeling good it’s doing what’s right and it’s about doing what will keep you happy long term not just