Inner Contentment By The Dalai Lama And Howard C. Cutler

One essay that came to my thoughts when discussing happiness and what it really means was the "Inner Contentment" by The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. There was an aspect discussed in this essay and I believe is the source that happiness derives from, desires. If you have a desire for anything, once you acquire such thing, you ultimately get satisfaction, another form of happiness. Desires spring our thoughts and ideas, later affecting our actions. All we want to do with desires is to fulfill them; only fundamental that derives from the term "desire". But what the Dalia Lama said about there are always two sides about desires, some are good and some are bad. The term "bad" can be expressed as illegal or inhumane like the desire for revenge, killing a human being or animal, or obstructing buildings and towns. These kind of desires is the only …show more content…
by Stephen Marche, does have a method that correlates in attaining a form of happiness. Social media is a way for many human beings, unlike me and some others, to interact and express their daily lives to their family, friends, and sometimes strangers. Some people might be obsessed with it and some can barely give a hoot about their followers, but overall, social media provides its purpose. The method that cooperates with social media and happiness is attention, a form of appraisal. For example, a teenage girl posts a picture of her and her boyfriend at an ice cream parlor. Each increase of like and/or view will slowly offer a small bit of satisfaction to this teenage girl because she is being acknowledged and appraised. I know this sounds stereotypical, but the idea I am pinpointing is attention can be essential for most human beings. Being lonely and self-comforting might be alright for some people, but for others, they need another life form of some sort to interact and offer attention to them in order to receive