“The Delusion of Positive Thinking,” author Barbara Ehrenreich says, “Happiness is, of course, a slippery thing to measure or define,” and in different culture, we have different ideas about happiness. In her essay, American think if they have positive thinking, they will feel happiness and have a better life. However, in reality, happiness is not only create from positive thinking. What is happiness? Some people think if they rich, they will feel happiness; some people think having a beautiful wife, drive a sport car, and eat in expensive restaurant is happiness. Moreover, happiness means a little girl have a new Barbie doll in the Christmas, happiness means when you find your true love, happiness means the person who you love smile with you, when you win more than two hundred million from Mega Lottery, or happiness means you cried after you fail in love or lose your job, etc; therefore, happiness have a lot of means and shapes. However, can affluence or money bring you happiness? Of course yes, but it’s your image, so it’s not a true happiness. Based on Barbara Ehrenreich 's essay, I believe that affluence does not often make people feel happiness because everybody has different opinions about what is happiness; for me, family, friend, and partner are three important parts that create happiness. Having a family is the important reason makes us feel happiness. "Family is not an important thing. It 's everything," by Michael J. Fox; it 's true for me, and I think it’s true for most of people. When we have a family, we can avoid from stress or negative thinking because family members can understand, trust, and sympathize for us. Sometimes, they can give us some good experiences and moral support when we need. For example, my family helps me a lots in my school and also in my social life. I remembered when I lived in Vietnam, I had a lot of trouble with my school and personal life. So, I usually get D and F score in my class, fail in love, and many bad things came to me, so it made me feel stress, sadness, and want to give up; therefore, my mom gave a lot of advices and emotional support for me. She told me that if you have a trouble in your life and want to give up, you can come back home; maybe I can’t help you in your trouble, but I always beside, listen, and worried about you. If one day everybody left you behind, you can come back home because your family always welcome and never left you behind. Scientists have said that family is very important for happiness and necessary for people than material wealth, such as iPhone, sport car or modern devices. Thus, money is good, but it not often bring happiness for us, but family can; family make a lot of effects for our lives both positive and negative side, but if we don’t have a family, we are nothing Having a best friend or confidantes, and a
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When they have a lot of money, they think they can do everything thy want. Although something was impossible in the past, they can easily do it because they have a lot of money now. For example, my younger brother tole me that he will be happier if he became a millionate; he can buy a big house, a Lamborghini car or travel around the world. Moreover, some people think if they are rich, they can give their family a good life, don 't need to work, marry a beautiful wife, etc; consequently, they believe affluence or money can make them feel happiness. However, in reality, the affluence can not make people happy as they thought. Money just does solve the problem but does not create happiness. Arccoding to " Who Say Money Cannot Buy Happiness," author Dwight R. Lee say money cannot bring the happiness for people. In the article, economist believe that money cannot buy happiness; they have a statistic that the income of American increase double since 1950, but the percentage of happy people is not increase, and they also say that the happiness, create by money, is momentary. Moreover, affluence cannot create happiness, so it just change people
When they have a lot of money, they think they can do everything thy want. Although something was impossible in the past, they can easily do it because they have a lot of money now. For example, my younger brother tole me that he will be happier if he became a millionate; he can buy a big house, a Lamborghini car or travel around the world. Moreover, some people think if they are rich, they can give their family a good life, don 't need to work, marry a beautiful wife, etc; consequently, they believe affluence or money can make them feel happiness. However, in reality, the affluence can not make people happy as they thought. Money just does solve the problem but does not create happiness. Arccoding to " Who Say Money Cannot Buy Happiness," author Dwight R. Lee say money cannot bring the happiness for people. In the article, economist believe that money cannot buy happiness; they have a statistic that the income of American increase double since 1950, but the percentage of happy people is not increase, and they also say that the happiness, create by money, is momentary. Moreover, affluence cannot create happiness, so it just change people