Neither person interviewed focused on disappointments. However, the text brings up several important points about disappointments and their role in true happiness. First, when it is all said and everything is done most people do look back on life with regrets (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012). However, as the authors continue to say a life with regrets does not mean life was not enjoyable (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012). Lost jobs, relationships end, goals never achieved, and an incomplete bucket list does not mean your life was not happy. Aristotle summed it up by saying “life can be good, hence happy, even though you are not always aware of it” (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012). I think when we spend time looking for deficiencies, we are unhappy. However, when we focus on what we do have we experience
Neither person interviewed focused on disappointments. However, the text brings up several important points about disappointments and their role in true happiness. First, when it is all said and everything is done most people do look back on life with regrets (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012). However, as the authors continue to say a life with regrets does not mean life was not enjoyable (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012). Lost jobs, relationships end, goals never achieved, and an incomplete bucket list does not mean your life was not happy. Aristotle summed it up by saying “life can be good, hence happy, even though you are not always aware of it” (Janaro & Altshuler, 2012). I think when we spend time looking for deficiencies, we are unhappy. However, when we focus on what we do have we experience