Rick Warren Happiness

“Happiness is a choice. You are the only person who can make you happy. You 're as happy as you choose to be.” - Rick Warren. Your happiness is bassed on yourself and the effort you decide to put into your happiness. A couple years ago I attended a presentation at my middle school, the speaker was a young lady who was raised with everything handed to her she never had to work for anything in her life. She started off by talking to us about her childhood and how her parents were never home and it was always her, her little brother, and the nanny. The young ladies parents were never home they traveled for work a lot so they spent most of their time in motels across the country. She expressed that growing up with your mom or dad …show more content…
I would always try my hardest to find the best in everything I did and I always strived to do things that would make me happiest. I remember my junior year of high school and I went out to lunch with some of my teammates for our friend Brianna 's birthday. I asked my mom if I could borrow her truck the night before so we could all fit but even then we were still packed like sardines. We had all gotten dressed up that day and were so excited to go out and spend our 45 minute lunch with our closest friends. After we had our lunch and were on our way back to school Briana decided to blast the radio to some random station. None of us knew the songs that were playing but we sang along like we did and at stop lights we danced like we had never danced before and towards the end of one song all of a sudden the singer yells out “Bruh” and we all kinda stopped looked at each other very confused and laughed until we cried. And in that moment I was the happiest being with my best friends dancing, singing having a great time just loving life and the little things it has to offer us. Personally for me it 's the little things that make me happy surrounding myself with people who have good vibes, who don 't always put themselves or others down I surround myself with people who make me happy and …show more content…
They will try and argue the fact that it isn 't in there control or base it on materialistic things such as money or gifts. Many parents who aren 't really in their kids lives focus on the materialistic things to make their kids happy, or people who come from a ton of money believe that their money is the key to their happiness. But quite frankly they 're wrong money or the newest things can 't buy someone happiness because once those things are gone they will have nothing. Because what if they lose all their money one day or there house burns down they will have nothing left to make them happy. People should never ever base their happiness in things that can be taken away in a split second they should base it on the little