| 201000955 Hannah Kim
It is what I always want to have but at the same time one of the most difficult things to define and explain- happiness. Happiness is the feeling that people have when they satisfy or achieve all the desires they want. Of course, the cause or reason that people feel happy is all different and it can be everything; from the success in their work to being loved by someone. In my case, thinking of the causes of happiness, I come up with these three things. The environment that all the people can be sincere and frank, getting the feeling of being loved and living without gaps among neighbors.
I believe mental state stands before physical state- all the material things around us, including money. Therefore, what I want to point out as the first thing that makes people feel happy is being able to act and say everything they want. In my point of view, people tend to live with the sense of emptiness when they have to hide their original feeling and thinking. I think the environments or moods that let people say sincerely and frankly just what they have in their mind give them fundamental satisfactory. We can find this disposition, desiring to say directly what they want and to be understood, by this everyone's earnest wish- having an authentic, true friend. The feeling of being trusted and having someone to rely upon gives us a good energy to overcome our hardship in our lives and happiness.
Also, there is one more feeling that I believe as the cause of happiness- feeling of being love. I believe there are no better feelings that people have than this. It is an instinct for human beings- being loved. We feel gratification when we know someone loves us truly. It makes us feel everything around us beautiful. When we are loved by others, it gives us also a great motivation achieving something because we know there is someone who would watch over us. It can give us a true satisfactory- from deep in our heart. Then, it can give us overwhelming happiness.
Although this factor is almost not feasible, no gap between the wealthy and the poor is also what can make people happy. It is not the objective fact how much they have that makes people frustrated or unhappy. Rather, comparing to other people around them is what makes people think miserable and sad. For example, people live in Bangladesh are found as one of the happiest people in the world. However, their income is surprisingly, one of the lowest. Researchers suggest that the reason of this phenomenon is because of the small gap between the wealthy and the poor. Thus, it can be concluded that it is the gap, or relative poverty that make people unhappy. To sum up, the cause of happiness can vary from people to people. This is so subjective concept that it is one of the most difficult things to define, in my point of view. However, during my life, these three were the best things that are thought to make people feel happy. Whenever I had someone to talk frankly and feeling that I am loved by someone, I could not be happier. I got energy and strength to achieve something and go through difficulties. In addition, people always tend to compare each other and desire to have more and be better person than others. Therefore, when there are large gap in living, there cannot be much happiness. They would always try to compete and struggle to get more. Thus, people would feel more comfortable and satisfied when there are no gaps among them.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Unit3, exercise 7- the causes of happiness
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Hannah,
ReplyDeleteyou explained cause of happiness into three parts. It seemed open relationship, being loved and equivalent quality of life.
It was interesting why the Bangladesh are happy. The fact that they are poor but they all poor was the reason. It provided me with food for thought.
It was kind to be informed in the introduction what would be followed next body paragraphs.
But it was little unclear to me when you mentioned living without gaps among neighbors. Because I though the gaps means kinds of phychological term. I realized it was not in the body paragraphs. It would be nicer if you clear up any misleading.
If you do not mind, I would like to add one more suggestion about conclusion. It seemed plain summary. Conclusion could be powerful if you add some comments there.
Thank you^^
Hanna, I always like your writing. This one is very good, too^^ You mentioned three causes of happiness. Being able to say or act whatever they want, feelings of being loved, and no gap between people. I like all the reasons you said. But I have just one question about cause number 3. You mentioned if there's no gap between the poor and the rich, people can be happy, right? I got your point that the things they have are not really important, and comparing with others and wanting more and more is the other way from the happiness. Even though I got your point, it seems pretty far from what you want to say. Do you want to say that what you have is not important, or no gap between the poor and the rich is really the factor for happiness? If latter is what you meant, I hope you to support your topic sentence with more relative examples. I'd like to know how no gap between people can be a factor of happiness, and if it can be possible that there's no gap between people. Other than that, I enjoyed your writing. I agree with you on the point of 'mental state stands before physical state.' I think this is the best sentence! Thank you for sharing^_^
ReplyDelete201000955 Hannah Kim
ReplyDeleteIt is what I always want to have but at the same time one of the most difficult things to define and explain- happiness. Happiness is the feeling that people have when they satisfy or achieve all the desires they want. Of course, the cause or reason that people feel happy is all different and it can be everything; from the success in their work to being loved by someone. In my case, thinking of the causes of happiness, I come up with these three things. The environment that all the people can be sincere and frank, getting the feeling of being loved and living without gaps among neighbors.
I believe mental state stands before physical state- it can be all the material things around us, including money. Therefore, what I want to point out as the first thing that makes people feel happy is the environment that provides people of moods to act and say everything they want. In my point of view, people tend to live with the sense of emptiness when they have to hide their original feeling and thinking. I think the environments or moods that let people say sincerely and frankly just what they have in their mind give them fundamental satisfactory. We can find this disposition, desiring to say directly what they want and to be understood, by this everyone’s earnest wish- having an authentic, true friend. The feeling of being trusted and having someone to rely upon gives us a good energy to overcome our hardship in our lives and happiness.
Also, there is one more feeling that I believe as the cause of happiness- feeling of being loved. I believe there are no better feelings that people have than this. It is an instinct for human beings- being loved. We feel gratification when we know someone loves us truly. It makes us feel everything around us beautiful. When we are loved by others, it gives us also a great motivation achieving something because we know there is someone who would watch over us. It can give us a true satisfactory- from deep in our heart. Then, it can give us overwhelming happiness.
Although this factor is almost not feasible, no gap between the wealthy and the poor is also what can make people happy. It is not the objective fact how much they have that makes people frustrated or unhappy. Rather, comparing to other people around them is what makes people think miserable and sad. For example, people live in Bangladesh are found as one of the happiest people in the world. However, their income is surprisingly, one of the lowest. Researchers suggest that the reason of this phenomenon is because of the small gap between the wealthy and the poor. Thus, it can be concluded that it is the gap, or relative poverty that make people unhappy.
To sum up, the cause of happiness can vary from people to people. This is so subjective concept that it is one of the most difficult things to define, in my point of view. Also, when talking about being happy, there is always one prior thing- there should no difficulties eating or living. It means that people should not struggle to survive. When this is not guaranteed, it is of no use and also nonsense to dream of or discuss happiness. However, when we assume that there is no difficulty supporting our living, during my life, these three were the best things that are thought to make people feel happy. Whenever I had someone to talk frankly and feeling that I am loved by someone, I could not be happier. I got energy and strength to achieve something and go through difficulties. In addition, people always tend to compare each other and desire to have more and be better person than others. Therefore, when there are large gap in living, there cannot be much happiness. They would always try to compete and struggle to get more. Thus, people would feel more comfortable and satisfied when there are no gaps among them.
Oh, I just forgot to attach this explanation. The writing above is what I re-wrote!!
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