In What Ways Do People Define Happiness

In this dialogue, a college student named Susan is trying to find out how do people define happiness and what is the best manner to obtain it. To have an answer for her question, Susan has decided to survey people to get responses. Fortunately, Susan has the opportunity to have a collective conversation with a group of people that agree to participate in her survey. The participants of the dialogue or the discussion are Mr. Anderson who is a retired general. Sara, who is a designer, Luisa who is a professor in sociology, and David, who is an advocate of the Carpe Diem (enjoy everyday pleasures without concerning about the future.
Susan: what is happiness?
David: Happiness is the ability to enjoy the pleasures of each day of life. A person …show more content…
David: I can tell you Susan that since they do not worry about future issues they are happy people. It is the same thing that can be said about children. Have not you hear that children are the most content people?
Susan: If people with mental problems tend to be happy because they do not have to worry about trouble issues, would you say that we would all be better off and happy if we were at the same stage as them? Meaning to be out of our mind?
In the case of the children, if you said that happiness is the ability to enjoy each day. How do children feet into this category if they are not even conscious that they have a pleasure life? It seems to me that children cannot know how to obtain happiness because they do not have the ability to bears responsibility for their acts. Hence, they do not purposely do things that make them happy but that because they are not conscious beings, they do not have to care about the future and…
David: You are probably right looking it from that perspective, but I still believe that happiness is only achieved by enjoying each day not matter what. If it is not the manner to obtain it, what other way can happiness be