| Tips that lead to happiness 200903992 Yooran Kim Another person committed suicide today. He was the CEO of a big company. He had a family. He had a highly educated background. He had a fortune everyone would envy. But he killed himself. Why? Among many reasons, experts guessed that he was under lots of stress and pressure. As a result, he wasn't happy at all. The scary thing is that there are so many people who are not happy and they are killing themselves. The suicide rate of Korea is number one of OECD countries. The leading cause of death in 20s and 30s is a suicide. Why are there so many unhappy people? What should they buy to be happy? What should they do to be happy? As a happy person I am, and as a person who had tried to commit suicide once, I will give you a tip of the happiness. It is really easy. You don't have to be rich because you don't have to buy anything expensive to be happy. What I recommend you is to have a positive mind. Always be grateful and enjoy that you are breathing now. Human beings tend to forget what they already have and what they can do. In my case, I can breathe. I can move my body well, and I can use all of my ten fingers and ten toes.(no offense!) I remember how painful it was when I couldn't breathe well in swimming pool and when I broke my left leg. Also, You can remember some events that you were lucky. Two years ago, I was sleeping lying on side on the floor next to my bed. I put my Macintosh on the edge of a bed, and just fell into sleep on the floor. At 3 a.m. I woke up being frightened at the weird feeling of some heavy breeze brushing my eye. When I opened my eyes in a second of lifting my body, I found that the big black square monitor fell down and the one corner of the computer chopped the keyboard to be broken. The three buttons that cracked were less than an inch away from my left eye. I was relieved but got gooseflesh imagining the other case I was an inch closer. Still I'm using that keyboard. My dad taped them. I try to think the heaven helped me to live second life. Then no matter what happens, I become grateful because I can see with my two beautiful eyes. Of course, I don't put my computer on the bed anymore. The first tip I said above is very useful in most cases. Actually it's enough to know only first tip. But if you can't be satisfied with only one, if you think that you have everything but can's see no future, here is a second tip. The second tip is to think that you are here from the future. Huh? Does this sound weird? No, it's not. I'm telling you the secret nobody knows. I know your secret. Haven't you ever wished to the heaven that you want to go back to the past? That's right. The heaven sent you back to the past. You are now in the past you wished. Of course you don't remember the future you came from. That's cheating to remember what happened in the future. At least, you got your second chance to change your future again. It really helped me when I was so frustrated with everything. I thought there is nothing left to me when I was 24. I thought I didn't have anyone who loves me and there's no future for me. I thought I was born to go through this short but severe life. Before I decide to commit suicide, I tried to remember every second I've been through since I was young. There were many happy memories and many sad memories. What if I had killed myself when I was 15? What if I had killed myself when I failed entrance exam? Could I meet my first love in college? Could I meet my best friend now? Could I listen to this beautiful music? Could I know that actually those were just good fertilizer for me to be more healthy and strong? I have wished to the heaven to please send me back to the past. Maybe this is the chance. Maybe my wish already came true. What if I have committed suicide already, but the heaven sent me back to the earth at this second before I kill myself? I cannot make same mistake. Maybe there is some future I would regret if I can't see it. At that time, I stopped crying and killing myself. I don't regret that decision. I never did. Actually there are many ways to be happy except two I mentioned above. Most of all, the important thing is your mind. Socrates had said 'know yourself.' Yes, it is important to know that you are enough to be happy. It's not really appropriate, but it helps to compare you and the other poor people. I'm not talking about money. Even people in the poor country think they are happy. I'm talking about conditions. When my grandmother and uncle passed away last year, it was the saddest year in my life. When I walked to the grave yard holding their bone powder pot, I felt guilty because I could breathe and I could feel this warm sunlight, and I could see beautiful flowers and trees in mountain. I felt how precious and beautiful it is to be living. Everyone goes through some hardship on the road of life. There's no fun without trouble, and that's the reason we are living this life. I hope everyone to be happy living here. We all are born to love and to be loved. |
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yooran,
ReplyDeleteit was really touching story even though it was a six-paragraph essay.
Your essay seems to suggest two tips for find happiness;positive attitude and thinking that we are from the future.
Former one was little obvious but latter was creative. It was intersting idea.
I liked the sentence that always be grateful and enjoy that you are breathing now. We often forget this simple sentence.
Suggestion: truth be told, I am kinds of person who expect next thing when I am reading. So,for the first time when I read your introduction, I thought body paragrphs would answer the three question step by step. However, it was not. Maybe it was rhetorical figure,I think. well, It could be kinder if you mentioned 'I would like to give you two tips' last part of introduction.
Thank you for giving me the chance to read touching story.
final draft of Tips that lead to happiness
ReplyDeleteAs I write these words, another person committed suicide. He was the CEO of a big company. He had a family. He had a highly educated background. He had a fortune everyone would envy. But he killed himself. Why? Among many reasons, experts guessed that he was under lots of stress and pressure. As a result, he wasn’t happy at all. The scary thing is that there are so many people who are not happy and they are killing themselves. The suicide rate of Korea is number one of OECD countries. The leading cause of death in 20s and 30s is a suicide. Why are there so many unhappy people? What should they buy to be happy? What should they do to be happy?
As a happy person, and as a person who tried to commit suicide once, I will give you a tip of the happiness. It is really easy. You don’t have to be rich because you don’t have to buy anything expensive to be happy. What I recommend you is to have a positive mind. Always be grateful and enjoy that you are breathing now. Human beings tend to forget what they already have and what they can do. In my case, I can breathe. I can move my body well, and I can use all of my ten fingers and ten toes. I remember how painful it was when I couldn’t breathe well in swimming pool and when I broke my left leg. Also, you can remember some events that you were really lucky. Let me share my lucky memory that makes me always feel grateful to life.
Two years ago, I was sleeping lying on side on the floor next to my bed. I put my Macintosh (computer) on the edge of a bed, and just fell into sleep on the floor. At 3 a.m. I woke up being frightened at the weird feeling of some heavy breeze brushing my eye. When I opened my eyes in a second of lifting my body, I found that the big black square monitor fell down and the one corner of the computer chopped the keyboard to be broken. The three buttons that cracked were less than an inch away from my left eye. I was relieved but got gooseflesh imagining the other case I was an inch closer. Still I’m using that keyboard because my dad taped them. I try to think the heaven helped me to live the second life. Then no matter what happens, I become grateful because I can see with my two beautiful eyes. Of course, I don’t put my computer on the bed anymore.
inal draft of Tips that lead to happiness : Part 2
ReplyDeleteThe first tip I said above is very useful in most cases. Actually it’s enough to know only first tip. But some of you might say that it’s too obvious tip and everyone knows it. It is easy even for a 3 year-old child to understand, but hard even for an 80 year-old elder to practice. Nevertheless, if you can’t be satisfied with only one, if you think that you have everything but can see no future, here is a second tip. The second tip is to think that you are here from the future. Huh? Does this sound weird? No, it’s not. I’m telling you the secret nobody knows. I know your secret. Haven’t you ever wished to the heaven that you want to go back to the past? That’s right. The heaven sent you back to the past. You are now in the past you wished. Of course you don’t remember the future you came from. That’s cheating to remember what happened in the future. It’s against the regulation. At least, you got your second chance to change your future again.
It really helped me when I was so frustrated with everything. I thought there is nothing left to me when I was 24. I thought I didn’t have anyone who loves me and there’s no future for me. I thought I was born to just go through this short but severe life. Before I decide to commit suicide, I tried to remember every second I’ve been through since when I was young. There were many happy memories and many sad memories. What if I had killed myself when I was 15? What if I had killed myself when I failed entrance exam? Could I meet my first love in college? Could I meet my best friend now? Could I listen to this beautiful music? Could I realize that those were actually just good fertilizers for me to be more healthy and strong? I have wished to the heaven to please send me back to the past. Maybe this is the chance. Maybe my wish already came true. What if I have committed suicide already, but the heaven sent me back to the earth at this second before I kill myself? I cannot make same mistake. Maybe there is some future I would regret if I can’t see it. At that time, I stopped crying and killing myself. I don’t regret that decision. I never did.
Actually there are many ways to be happy except two I mentioned above. Most of all, the important thing is your mind. Socrates had said ‘know yourself.’ Yes, it is important to know that you are enough to be happy. It’s not really appropriate, but it helps to compare you and the other poor people. I’m not talking about money. Even people in the poor country think they are happy. I’m talking about conditions. When my grandmother and uncle passed away last year, it was the saddest year in my life. When I walked to the graveyard holding their bone powder pot, I felt guilty because I could breathe and I could feel this warm sunlight, and I could see beautiful flowers and trees in mountain. I felt how precious and beautiful it is to be living. Everyone goes through some hardship on the road of life. There’s no fun without trouble, and that’s the reason we are living this life. I hope everyone to be happy living here. We all are born to love and to be loved.