Analysis: The Sources Of Happiness

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When hearing the word happiness, some people may interpret it with: being surrounded by or having friends, spending time with family, having a healthy relationship with either a man or woman, having food and water that is available to them, living in some kind of structure, and having what they truly need at the moment or in the near future. Then there are the other people, and not attending to be rude, who have very different views of what true happiness consists of. They perceive it as having money, good sex at availability, a great house, a nice car, being popular in some way, and having a successful career. As you can tell, one side is consisted of needs, while the other is consisted of mainly wants. Bernard Meltzer once said that “Success …show more content…
Jordan Mckenzie” by Stu Horsfield goes into both factual and optional depth of true happiness and what kinds of factors play into it. This article, in many ways, combines and goes further into what the first two article that we have read, which were “The Sources of Happiness” by the Dalai Lama and Cutler and “We have No Right to Happiness” by C.S. Lewis. But with this article, as I have mentioned before, goes deep into the source of it all: where it lies in our minds and our everyday daily actions. The main focus of this article is based on this quote: “I’m looking at people who fit within what we might call ‘normal,’ but who, in day to day life will feel happy and feel sad” (Stu Horsfield 178). This is important because the first article says that you deserves happiness while the second article explains that you will never have it and that you will never deserve it. With this article, it says you can’t have one individually, but you get both or you get nothing. So, overall it is dismissing both of the articles. But as you can see, all of them give different views on happiness and their …show more content…
No one is truly happy, but some may be at that moment, but their thoughts of something bad will catch up to them, making the flame of happiness die down. I honestly use to be a truly happy person, that was, until senior year came and my symptoms, which I do not want to disclose, came to me all at once. That cut my tie from that happy person I use to be, also cutting my from my friends, family, and education, due to missing loads of school and losing interest in activities that I loved doing before all of that happened. I am not confused on what happiness is in my life because I now throw away the bad and desperately cling to the good. I am getting better at

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