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PURSUING HAPPINESS
(Essay)

I've been trying to find the meaning of happiness and what are the requirements to acquire it. I also wonder how would I make the feeling stay longer rather than sadness. But my pursuit of finding it seems to entail a lot of conflicts and misunderstandings, making it seemingly impossible to achieve.

Reasons vary for different kinds of people. For materialistic persons, possessing the most expensive gadget or clothing would be the reason for their happiness. Others might reason love or intangible things (emotions, etc.) to achieve it.

My emotion is always unstable. Bliss never stayed so long that I usually got stuck up in sadness. It seems that my wheel of fortune is always stuck up on a dark and muddy terrain.

I once read that the emergence of problems cannot be controlled, but how we react to it solely depends on us. I believe in it, but why can’t I tightly hold onto it? I tried several ways, even by trying to pattern my way of living in the philosophy of persons who value tangible and intangible things, successively, as a source of their happiness. However, it does not suffice my requirements to prolong the joy.

I realized that one’s happiness differs and won’t be exactly the same reasons as others. It is because our needs and reasons to feel joy and to prolong it vary. And the ways we view it solely depend on us.

Another reason is we can never be contented, influencing our view of happiness. Once we acquire the reason of feeling the joy, we long more of it that many of us became greedy. We are subject to jealousy and ambition. And there’s no escaping it.

What I simply understand is happiness is complex itself.  What more the ways and reasons to achieve it?

Happiness is a word so simple yet difficult to study or comprehend.