Stumbling on Happiness

Relationships are an important part of life and happiness. The success of a romantic relationship determines many factors on par with life satisfaction and financial stability, therefore it is imperative that a person takes every necessary step towards preserving a prosperous relationship. While many make excuses for failing relationships, there are a few factors that almost always result in an unhealthy relationship, which are settling, trust issues, and codependency. “She can do so much…

“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.” Role models are people who are always enthusiastic, optimistic, calm, and self-assured in themselves. You don't want someone who is always down or tries to bring you down. Everyone likes someone who is happy with their achievements but continues to strive for bigger and better objectives in their life. Many people look to someone to serve as a model or motivator for their life. Mine happens to be J.K…

objects that they have come to want, and most aspire to have more luxurious objects than those they possess at a given moment. Few individuals desire to escape the comfortable and materialistic life that so many live and instead find their true happiness living a simple, non-materialistic life while embracing the beauty found in nature all around the globe. Into the Wild’s Chris McCandless is one of the few who has had such a great desire. McCandless was a courageous, noble idealist whose…

Any human feels certain emotions when trying things for the first time: fear, anxiety, excitement, and happiness just to name a few. Now, for a moment, consider the idea that whatever you are trying feels those same exact emotions, just towards you. How would that make you feel? Would it help ease whatever stress you are feeling, or would it make you even more excited to try it? The story Schools First Day of School is a story about overcoming deep fears by looking through the lens of the feared…

issue; our moral would tend choose the happiness of the many over the sacrifices of the few, thus, the least would be sacrificed for the happiness of the majority. However, in the book The Martian by Andy Weir, the idea is communicated in a different way. Instead of scarfing for the needs of the few, the many are making considerable sacrifices for the good of the few. If anything, the author intends to tell us that being altruistic and sacrificing our own happiness for the sake of helping others…

"From rags to riches" is a frequently used term describing someone who started in a poor situation and became someone who performs meaningful actions. Doing good deeds, or being a good person, wouldn't be as difficult for a person who started with money, food and a good home. However, it becomes a different story when drugs, alcohol, violence, and poverty are thrown into the mix. Sydney Carton, one of the main characters in A Tale of Two Cities, and Mark Wahlberg, a present day actor, both went…

title, Socrates does not apologize for these actions. Socrates is so adamant that he did no wrong which in turn leads to him explaining how much philosophy benefits society. His passion for philosophy gives him a sense of fulfillment that fuels his happiness, therefore Socrates does live a human flourishing life. Socrates…

Roosevelt said, "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." He implied that doing what you love, whatever it may be, will bring you happiness. Similarly, the three essays, The Power and Mystery of Naming Things by Eve Ensler, Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges by Frank X Walker, and Happy Talk by Oscar Hammerstein articulate how to be happy. Through these three authors, I learned that openness, creativity, and positivity can lead to happiness. Talking about…

As we progress through life, we create memories that remind is of the good times we had and why we became what we did. Pictures depict a thousand words, but their sentimental value can never be fragmented. The memories we create in life and the pictures that capture them mean the most to us when it was done by the side of someone valuable to our life. Prom, one of the biggest events in high school, can be scary. Especially for me because my parents never had prom. My first prom, during junior…

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.” (Millman) This quote can be interpreted in many different ways. When applied to Peaceful warrior one can deduce that it could mean when people chase dreams it is not the destination or the goal that beings us the most joy but it is the path that we take to get to that goal that makes us the happiest and that benefits us. When one applies this quote to the theme of “The value of purpose and dreams” it could be determined that it the…