Three Constituents Of Happiness

SYNTHESIZING HAPPINESS Defining happiness may seem as elusive as achieving it. We all want to be happy, and we can say whether we are happy or not, but can we honestly define it, study it or measure it? Some people say happiness is leading good life, freedom from suffering, flourishing, well-being, joy, prosperity, and pleasure; but it can’t be well defined without looking at three major constituents of happiness. Seligman and his co-authors say that happiness consists of “pleasure (or positive emotion), engagement, and meaning” (418). The authors said “we can increase our positive emotion about the past by cultivating gratitude and forgiveness, our positive emotion about the present by savoring and mindfulness and our positive emotion about the future by building hope and optimism” (418). Another way by which we can define happiness by looking at these three constituents involves the pursuit of gratification which makes us totally engaged. People may find gratification by talking to someone they admire, completing a complex task at your job, playing soccer, listening to music or hanging out with friends. The authors emphasize that “there is no shortcut …show more content…
It is very important to do what makes you happy and brings out the joy in you. Money makes us happy, but to certain extent because even people that are wealthy in our society today still have one or two things affecting them from being happy. Most people are able to commence their lives without money reason being is because money doesn’t buy happiness. There are more aspect of life than just money because if everything was all about money, majority of the people in our society today will not be able to survive. Also, by looking in the Instagram account #Souljaboy I was able to tell that social media is another way by which people tend to express or describe their