As human beings goes through life, we makes choices. Whether or not to eat breakfast? Should we get up early to watch the sunrise? How much should we study? Should we go to class? All of these questions lead to decisions about how we should live our life. While reading this, you could be having an internal thought battle deciding whether or not to skim the rest of this paragraph and move on to the next paragraph. Each decision we make, pushes us forward to our goals, right? Continuing on the battle of whether or not to skim this intro, we ask ourselves a two questions: What do I gain from skimming this paragraph? What do I lose if I continue reading? These two questions are the epitome of who we are. The responses to these two questions depend
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We can see what kind of person we are, the habits we hold, the ideas in our mind, all from the actions and ideas put on our individual piece of blank white paper. By filling up the page, we are creating our personal identity and taking one step closer to eternal happiness. Each individual action is thought upon to have some sort of happiness associated with it. Whether that happiness is defined through seeing someone else’s joy, or our own joy, the happiness that we seek from completing actions and making decisions is a life long and eternal journey. Every step we take is a step towards the good life. Aristotle says the good life is the happy life, which corresponds to a happy lifestyle all originating in our starting decisions and actions. Everyone’s idea of happiness is different. Whether the idea of happiness is being a multi-millionaire, or simply having all of your loved ones around you in the wilderness during a nice summer day, happiness is subjective. By setting a goal or target of happiness in our lives, we strive to keep getting better, and making every decision that much closer to the goal. One day, we will get close enough to touch it, allowing us to look back at all of the decisions we have made, and see the long journey that we went
We can see what kind of person we are, the habits we hold, the ideas in our mind, all from the actions and ideas put on our individual piece of blank white paper. By filling up the page, we are creating our personal identity and taking one step closer to eternal happiness. Each individual action is thought upon to have some sort of happiness associated with it. Whether that happiness is defined through seeing someone else’s joy, or our own joy, the happiness that we seek from completing actions and making decisions is a life long and eternal journey. Every step we take is a step towards the good life. Aristotle says the good life is the happy life, which corresponds to a happy lifestyle all originating in our starting decisions and actions. Everyone’s idea of happiness is different. Whether the idea of happiness is being a multi-millionaire, or simply having all of your loved ones around you in the wilderness during a nice summer day, happiness is subjective. By setting a goal or target of happiness in our lives, we strive to keep getting better, and making every decision that much closer to the goal. One day, we will get close enough to touch it, allowing us to look back at all of the decisions we have made, and see the long journey that we went