PARADOX OF HAPPINESS
INTRODUCTION
Within this essay, I will be discussing about happiness. The reason why this is important is because I feel that I am now on the road which I believe it will lead me to happiness. I’m currently at the end of my first year, studying fashion design which was once my dream and I thought of it as an absolute gateway to happiness. Yet, I have another dream right now; much higher and bigger than previous ones. So I start to wonder if there will be an end in finding happiness. Before that, what is Happiness? For me, it is a positive emotion; a state of being enjoyed and content.
For sure, all of us wish to be happy and search for happiness. Yet once we acquire the happiness, we realise we want more. How would we be happy if we desired for more, without being content first? Will happiness be ever enough? Is our society obsessed with it? Therefore, I’ll be focusing on forms and sources of happiness in first section of this essay. After that, I will inspect the misconception of happiness. Follow by the relation between happiness and money. Finally, I will compare the happiness found in fast society and slow life.
FORMS AND SOURCES OF HAPPINESS
When we think about our happiness, we may have first though of the goals that we have achieved, the living …show more content…
He stated that it does not necessarily mean both components are required in achieving happiness, but rather the stage of the balance between pleasure and purpose as it would hit highest happiness level (Dolan, 2014: p. 13). On the other side, I start to wonder if we really need both pleasure and purpose. Without a doubt, we can gain pleasure from doing what we love. This proves that pleasure alone itself alone could create happiness. To give an example, we could attain pleasures from simply enjoying drinks that we love without the purpose of finishing the
INTRODUCTION
Within this essay, I will be discussing about happiness. The reason why this is important is because I feel that I am now on the road which I believe it will lead me to happiness. I’m currently at the end of my first year, studying fashion design which was once my dream and I thought of it as an absolute gateway to happiness. Yet, I have another dream right now; much higher and bigger than previous ones. So I start to wonder if there will be an end in finding happiness. Before that, what is Happiness? For me, it is a positive emotion; a state of being enjoyed and content.
For sure, all of us wish to be happy and search for happiness. Yet once we acquire the happiness, we realise we want more. How would we be happy if we desired for more, without being content first? Will happiness be ever enough? Is our society obsessed with it? Therefore, I’ll be focusing on forms and sources of happiness in first section of this essay. After that, I will inspect the misconception of happiness. Follow by the relation between happiness and money. Finally, I will compare the happiness found in fast society and slow life.
FORMS AND SOURCES OF HAPPINESS
When we think about our happiness, we may have first though of the goals that we have achieved, the living …show more content…
He stated that it does not necessarily mean both components are required in achieving happiness, but rather the stage of the balance between pleasure and purpose as it would hit highest happiness level (Dolan, 2014: p. 13). On the other side, I start to wonder if we really need both pleasure and purpose. Without a doubt, we can gain pleasure from doing what we love. This proves that pleasure alone itself alone could create happiness. To give an example, we could attain pleasures from simply enjoying drinks that we love without the purpose of finishing the