Are you tired of your boring routine of life? The pursuit of happiness can be triggered by wanting to be happy. Once you start wanting to be happy, you forgive more, surround yourself with positivity and you’ll worry less. Good mental health is very important because if you don’t let other people help you, it will be a lot harder than it has to be. Everyone has their own interpretation of happiness and how to achieve it, the Youngers choose to buy a house to make a step towards happiness. In the book A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry We have the Younger family. They receive a check for $10,000 for the death insurance of Big Walter. Everyone has their own suggestion on how to spend the money to help them in their pursuit of happiness. Beneatha suggests she spends it to help her pay for medical school. Everyone tells her she can’t be a doctor, but she believes that she can do it. Mama
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They had two option of taking Mr. Lindner's money and stay in their apartment or move in the “white” neighborhood. Walter stands up and says, “We have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money.” (x.x) In Pico Iyer's essay The Joy of Less he read a quote from Hamlet “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” (313). He found out that money cannot buy happiness and now he lives in a two bedroom apartment with only the necessities. He has so much time to think instead of worrying about the new biggest thing online. His happiness came from everything he did not want or need and not what he did. Living a minimalistic life like his. Life goes by slowly and you can take your time and savor every moment in your
They had two option of taking Mr. Lindner's money and stay in their apartment or move in the “white” neighborhood. Walter stands up and says, “We have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money.” (x.x) In Pico Iyer's essay The Joy of Less he read a quote from Hamlet “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” (313). He found out that money cannot buy happiness and now he lives in a two bedroom apartment with only the necessities. He has so much time to think instead of worrying about the new biggest thing online. His happiness came from everything he did not want or need and not what he did. Living a minimalistic life like his. Life goes by slowly and you can take your time and savor every moment in your