Happiness Essay Happiness cannot be uniformly defined by everyone, mainly due to how everyone has had different life experiences, and it is these experiences upon which they grow upon with and reflect their everyday actions on. Many find happiness in monetary possessions or in just having money, which can have a negative impact on their life styles because they will always attempt to get money and with whatever matters necessary. Other find happiness in the small things in life, but it all depends on our mentality we have on life. Some have been through hell and others have lived the life of glory, and yet they can end up striving for the same goal in life, and a great example would be college students. College students mentally and physically
Nobody really knows what true happiness is, but as long as each person is happy with themselves and their situation then they may have true happiness. The ideal form of true happiness is creating a life for the future and reaching set goals. This could be simple things such as getting a job, getting married, buying a home and having a family. Gatsby was unable to gain what he would consider true happiness, because he was not able to get
Having large amounts of money is not a purpose in that of itself, because you have done absolutely nothing with it. Having large wealth is merely another possession, and possessions don’t normally contain a purpose. Using the wealth you have accumulated to bring your family comfortability and financial security for generations is a purpose. One may argue that obtaining large amounts of material items, and living a luxurious lifestyle is a purpose, but honestly, who is your purpose benefitting? You don’t have to save the world to be a success, but if you only benefit yourself, who are you a success
You can’t take it with you when you die If it is true that wealth isn’t all that it is cracked up to be, and money cannot buy happiness, then why does it seem that that’s all anyone strives for? In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan abandons the love of her life due to his lack of financial success, and Jay Gatsby risks everything he has to become rich. The means by which they attain their success are more than questionable and unethical, yet it is impossible to think that the lifestyle their money brings is completely undesirable. Today’s society is no different in the way that money is so highly sought after. As a high school student, it seems as though every conversation somehow turns to where people want to go to college and what they
This is because people only focus on their short-term satisfaction. They pay very little attention to how things will work out for them in the long run and only care about their current state of happiness. However, in fact, there are still many major problems that exist. Only in a time where society is becoming evidently corrupted, does anyone even consider these problems. This concept is shown in the novel, because the times of turmoil result in a serious change in Montag’s mind.
Cracks in Perfection If you were to develop in a world where no concept of love is given, does that mean you cannot necessarily find it anyway? In Brave New World, the characters have no concept of love or any other passion and actually scorn the idea. The goal is to avoid emotional instability. The characters are supposed to find artificial happiness in eternal youth, the comforts of technology, and soma. There are however cracks in the perceived happiness of this seemingly perfect society.
Good VS. Evil “Money doesn’t buy happiness.” A saying many non-wealthy human beings say just to make them feel better about their self-esteem. But it seems odd that in this book “The Great Gatsby” money evolves around love. The two main characters Gatsby and Tom, theyre love Daisy is only interested in them because of theyre wealth. So this quote has no meaning because money did buy them happiness or at least for Tom it did.
Never before has there been a time in history that society has placed such an importance of material wealth and accumulation in determining social status. Somewhere along the line things have gotten mixed up; happiness has been associated with having more stuff, and two don’t come separately. Cabral’s short story reminds us that these riches in life serve only to distract us from what’s really important, as shown here. “So the people put both the present and the future of our town in his hands, but in the long run he got more and more tired of everyone agreeing with him all the time, being waited on hand and foot by the loveliest beauty queens, and no one allowing him to lose at poker games.” (Cabral. 27) Even with all of the success that came along with leading the town, it left him with an emptiness that ultimately led to his demise, “He was desperate to resign, but that was out of the question, and so the solitude of power was bound to kill him.” (Cabral.
The things in life that cannot be purchased are family, love, and your religious beliefs. Knowing this, I wonder if the richest people in the world hold religion at the center of their life in the same way someone less fortunate would. In all honesty, I crave to be financially confident and to be able to have money for my cravings of nice material things, (isn’t this why we work in the first place?) though I am aware those things that I crave hold no spiritual value. Just as an animal performs his tricks with a treat as his motivation, we humans seem to be disciplined to “work hard, play later”; to go to school and get good grades to have to have the reward of a good paying job and so on and so forth.
People on welfare somehow have a sense of entitlement that is extremely unrealistic. Most people on welfare believe they should be given everything and not have to work for anything. People on welfare tend to have a false sense of accomplishment which is really disturbing. I have no idea how this happens or is even possible. My best guess is that just like a spoiled child, people on welfare feel they deserve and should be given everything and they are, in their minds, hard working members of