Why Do We Seek Happiness?

Happiness; people seek this one emotion throughout their entire lives wondering if they will ever achieve it. I am no exception, I seek happiness, but not for myself. Rather, I seek happiness through my actions upon others. A driving force of why I wake up in the morning is the ability to make other people smile and experience kindness in their day. I value my capability to make someone’s day more relenting in the constant onslaught of daily life. Kindness, generosity, and amiability are all ideals I strive to demonstrate in my interactions with others. My first night in Irvine I let a guy sit with me at my table in the Habit. Although I was saving it for the group I was with and I decided one more person could not hurt. My group ditched me …show more content…
We only have so many hours and days on this earth and I treasure the time friends choose to spend with me. When I came home from Irvine the first week of Freshman Edge I went to the movies with my friends. It was a normal outing but when we stood in a circle just talking about anything and everything, laughing from a joke someone said a few minutes ago, I started tearing up. The time they took to meet up one last time before most of them left for college is such a gift to me. My time with them is over and we are all on our way to greater things in life. Out of the limited and restricted time, there is so much that I still have to accomplish so why should I waste it. As a new college student, time has only become more precious to me. Managing my time to fulfill my academic goals and social aspirations is entirely different from high school. There is simultaneously an abundance of time and a shortage of it due to your goals. My goal is to put my best effort forward in college. I value determination and tenacity to achieve my ambitions in life. With enough determination, I believe that anything is possible and the impossible is just what you think you cannot do. I never experienced true determination until I joined track and field. When I was running on the track I felt a breaking point where I thought that I could not endure that last lap and this is the moment I would quit. The sun blazed down on me as I kept putting one aching leg after the other and questioned why do I put myself through this torture. At the end of the practice I discovered my answer; all the pain was to improve myself. It was to improve my physical endurance, improve my speed, and improve my mental