Definition Of Parents Essay

Pt. I Happiness is experiencing love. It doesn’t matter what kind of love it is, whether it is loving yourself, loving someone else, or having someone else love you. When we experience love, we experience happiness. There is a study in the world where people in Finland, Sweden, and Taiwan mapped where they felt their feelings. The intensity of sensation, or lack thereof, created a “body atlas” for the emotions. A depressed person lacked sensations all over the body, an angry person had increased sensations near the head, chest, and arms. The only emotion that had an intense feeling throughout the body was happiness, with love coming in close second. I believe that this is because happiness and love go hand in hand, and true happiness produces a pleasant feeling to every cell in the body. And I believe that when someone experiences total happiness, it produces an aura around them, where other people can see it and even have some of the happiness rub off onto them. This morning I experienced true happiness. I …show more content…
I had to get past my own feelings in order to see the bigger picture, to actually understand why change is not always bad. What I’m referencing is my parent’s separation. For the last 18 years of my life, I have lived in the same house as my mother and father. Arguments happened daily, it was uncommon to have a peaceful day. As time went on, the arguments got stronger, fiercer, angrier. It was a battle between different epistemologies. And last year, my senior year in high school, on my 18th birthday, my mom moved out. I was very bitter. How could she move out on my birthday? How selfish and rude is that? And after a few months of me not talking to my mom and being bitter created a regret inside me. She’s my mother, and she deserves to be happy, just like anyone else in the world. I was the one being selfish and rude by wanting her to stay in a toxic