What is Happiness?

            Happiness is an emotion. Happiness is the state of being happy. What is Happy? Happy is feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. Yeah. I really don’t know what to write about happiness. Happiness is something that you either have or you don’t. I guess when… yeah I have no idea how to explain happiness. But I have to try and make six hundred words out of this. So, happiness can mean many different things to a lot of different people. It depends on who you are, what you like and so many other factors. For example, some people might achieve happiness just from being able to eat a meal every day, but happiness to another person may be eating 3 gallons of ice cream at least once a week.

            Happiness is not just obtained by a specific one thing. Happiness is well as I said before is an emotion. Two people can have the exact same thing, or be doing the exact same thing; and doing that one thing can bring one person happiness and the other just be content. But its all just about the way you see things. The person who is happy with that thing has a positive outlook on it, the other person who is just content of not happy with it, simply is not looking at it with a positive outlook. Happiness is all about perspective.

For some strange reason, everyone seeks to find happiness. I guess it’s an instinct or something. I really don’t know. Happiness is easy to find, but being truly happy is nearly impossible to find. Everyone can be happy if they choose to be. I believe that being happy isn’t just simply what you have or what you get, or your attitude. Happiness is a way of life, I guess you could say.  Achieving happiness is just the way you look at things, and perceive them. I you look on life with a view of being happy, things will be happy and I guess eventually make you happy. But sometimes just being positive doesn’t achieve complete happiness. Well if everyone has an optimistic view on life then I assume that happiness would be a lot easier to achieve. But not everyone does have that kind of view on life. So even if you try to be happy always there will be some people who simply are not happy. You can have many reasons not to be happy. But even when I’m not happy for example I tell myself that soon it will be over. And not to feel bad for myself because there are people who have way worse lives. And that’s why I try to stay positive about things, because if you don’t you won’t just make yourself not happy, but others too.