“There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” is a journal article that was written by Emily Esfahani Smith. It was published on January 9, 2013. Its purpose is simply to explain to the audience that, ‘It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness’ (Smith 2013). I very much enjoyed this journal article because after reading it I felt that I had actually connected to it. For example, a big topic that she focused on while writing this article, was that being happy dealt with “taking”, while living a meaningful life, dealt with “giving” (Smith 2013). This really stuck out to me because if you really think about it, it is very accurate. When someone is happy, most of the time it is because their needs and wants have been satisfied. This article introduces an idea that when someone finds meaning for their life, it doesn’t always lead to happiness, but it does lead to a life worth living.
In the beginning of the article it begins to tell us some …show more content…
By doing all of this we are acknowledging the fact that there is more to the good life than the pursuit of simple happiness (Smith 2013).This article, “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy”, written by Emily Esfahani Smith, was a great article to help people realize that although being happy is a very important aspect of life, it is not the most important. Happiness is an emotion that comes and goes. The meaning of life is something that stays forever. Finding meaning helps fight difficult and horrible experiences. Even though something is bad at the moment because a person has meaning to life or has found meaning to life, the struggle will be easier to overcome. I highly recommend this journal article because it was very well written and had a lot of good and accurate points that may be able to help a lot of
In the beginning of the article it begins to tell us some …show more content…
By doing all of this we are acknowledging the fact that there is more to the good life than the pursuit of simple happiness (Smith 2013).This article, “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy”, written by Emily Esfahani Smith, was a great article to help people realize that although being happy is a very important aspect of life, it is not the most important. Happiness is an emotion that comes and goes. The meaning of life is something that stays forever. Finding meaning helps fight difficult and horrible experiences. Even though something is bad at the moment because a person has meaning to life or has found meaning to life, the struggle will be easier to overcome. I highly recommend this journal article because it was very well written and had a lot of good and accurate points that may be able to help a lot of