Definition Essay: The Role Of Happiness In College Students

Happiness is what everyone wants to have, but no one knows where it is. Many events can happen in people’s life and destroy their stability; as a result, they feel no happy. People think that happiness is something that they can earn or achieve, but researchers have different points of view about happiness. For years many researchers study the process of stress and happiness resulting of many theories to help people to understand their mind and behavior. Especially college students, who have to face many challenges to achieve their dreams such as fail a test, do not have time to study or cannot sleep enough. They have stress that ruin their life resulting be unhappy. College students have to consider three majors point to find happiness: happiness comes from inside, they can adapt to new situations, and they have to know that happiness can be synthesized. First of all, college students have to know that …show more content…
They can turn their vision to see bad situation as a good situation to be happy. They can save energy to thinking about bad result and use it to focus to create a good idea. When something bad happened, no one can go back and change. As a result, it is useless trying to think about it and made them unhappy. The video of Dan Gilbert about The Surprising of Happiness showed some example of how people can synthesize happiness. One example is Sir Thomas Browne (1642) who wrote, "I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity. I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me". Another example stated Moreese Bickham who spend 37 years of his life in Louisiana State Penitentiary for crime he did not commit, but after that he did not feel regret and described his experience as glorious. Although their experiences were not good, they can see their experiences positively and feeling happiness with their