Happiness (Based on a movie 'Happy')

English 101
Jacky Ng
5/13/2013
1311 Words
Happiness
Is life really about the 'money', the 'cash', who has the biggest gold chain or who drives the shiniest or fastest car, who sells the most albums or who has the most respect? Today happiness is viewed in many different ways. Everyone defines happiness according to their personal perspectives. Each individual describes their inner feelings in a way that you can't compare with another. HYPERLINK "/search.asp?text=happiness" Happiness originally and logically means the inner state of wellbeing or a pleasurable or satisfying experience. It enables you to profit from your highest: thoughts, wisdom, intelligence, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values in your life. What makes you happy and what makes me happy are different things. Whatever it is that gives you warm fuzzes is determined by you, and only you. This difference is what makes the world interesting.
Most of the happiness that we experience comes from the feeling of love. So many people look to their  HYPERLINK "/search.asp?text=love+relationships" love relationships, especially marriage to give them the happiness that they cannot find on their own. Love is not enough to provide happiness, then there must be many frustrated lovers in the world. The belief that love guarantees happiness is left over from the ideology of  HYPERLINK "/search.asp?text=romantic+love" romantic love that tells us we will live happily ever after if we can only find the right person with whom to spend our life with. If we realize that love by itself will not bring happiness, then hopefully we will be more tolerant of the imperfections of those we love. If our relationships have their problems and if those we love do not always meet our expectations it doesn't mean that we have lost our chance for happiness. When we do not expect love to give us the happiness we seen, there will be more room for forgiveness of the imperfections and problems that always accompany love.
However, some people believe material conditions really are as important as perspective or mental attitude, if not more so. It is true that money is important. In today’s society, everything costs money: food, education, health care, housing and more.
According to Abraham Maslow’s basic needs theory, “Each of us is motivated by needs.” He also states that “we must satisfy each need in turn, starting with the first, which deals with the most obvious needs for survival itself” (Maslow).
A complex thing it is, this happiness. If we had to ask each person to rate their happiness on a scale from 1-10, how people do you think would even be half way? I don't think that many. Everybody in this world has the right to happiness. However, I don’t think we should seek our happiness by all means. I don’t agree that people should be selfish in order to get whatever they want. Of course, I’m not saying that there aren’t any selfish people in this world, but some people are more selfish than others .So we need to have some balance in what we want and what would make us happy. Also we need to make sure that we don’t burden ourselves in the sake of others' happiness.
Happiness is having a lot of friends for social interaction; therefore, one should first consider what they have, not what they lack. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. The movie Happy is also making a compelling argument that once the basic needs, such as food and shelter, are provided for; the economic factors have relatively little to do with the overall satisfaction of life.
Material wealth cannot be the only source of happiness since it also needs inner peace and satisfaction that cannot be guaranteed by material possessions....