Happiness Is a Choice of Mind
In modern day society, happiness is often confused with an obsessive need for material gratification. We spend most of our time and energy comparing and thinking about the things we don’t have we sometimes forget to appreciate our family and the important necessities that we do have. The major repercussion of this is that the most important part of life, overall life satisfaction due to unconditional Happiness is lost due to our never-ending desires and the want for things that we could simply live without.
Each person may have his or her personal way of thinking about what happiness means to them but a trip to the small tropical island Fiji changed the way I look at the relation between materialistic items with unconditional, genuine happiness.
Four years ago, my mom decided that it would be a good idea to take me to Fiji the country to experience the life in which she grew up. My mom’s family ran a general store selling snacks and everyday items for a living. In other words, they were relatively quiet poor at the time but as my mom tells me that they always looked at the upside of every situation. For example, they would look forward to Christmas not …show more content…
If you have money but don’t have a loving family and real friends, you won’t be happy” I didn’t believe her at the time but just after two weeks in Fiji, I started to understand what she meant. The local everyday people of Fiji choose to be happy. They choose to look at the best of their work, school and overall life. They choose to form valuable emotional bonds with friends and family bringing them a different kind of happiness. In a way, people who don’t have anything, have the most while people who have lots, have nothing and the only thing that matters is how you choose to look at
In modern day society, happiness is often confused with an obsessive need for material gratification. We spend most of our time and energy comparing and thinking about the things we don’t have we sometimes forget to appreciate our family and the important necessities that we do have. The major repercussion of this is that the most important part of life, overall life satisfaction due to unconditional Happiness is lost due to our never-ending desires and the want for things that we could simply live without.
Each person may have his or her personal way of thinking about what happiness means to them but a trip to the small tropical island Fiji changed the way I look at the relation between materialistic items with unconditional, genuine happiness.
Four years ago, my mom decided that it would be a good idea to take me to Fiji the country to experience the life in which she grew up. My mom’s family ran a general store selling snacks and everyday items for a living. In other words, they were relatively quiet poor at the time but as my mom tells me that they always looked at the upside of every situation. For example, they would look forward to Christmas not …show more content…
If you have money but don’t have a loving family and real friends, you won’t be happy” I didn’t believe her at the time but just after two weeks in Fiji, I started to understand what she meant. The local everyday people of Fiji choose to be happy. They choose to look at the best of their work, school and overall life. They choose to form valuable emotional bonds with friends and family bringing them a different kind of happiness. In a way, people who don’t have anything, have the most while people who have lots, have nothing and the only thing that matters is how you choose to look at