Most people agree that money cannot buy happiness. Why is happiness difficult to define? How can people achieve happiness?
Whether money can buy
happiness
has been an ongoing debate for many years. Happiness
is one of the most difficult emotions to define as there are multiple factors which determine one’s contentment in life. I will be proposing a few ideas on how one can achieve happiness
.
Firstly
, we have to define what is happiness
?
For some it may be family, for Change the punctuation
.
others
it is having abundant wealth. Add a comma
,others
Therefore
, the meaning of happiness
is incredibly difficult to determine. Moreover
, in recent studies, multiple factors have been used to attempt to define happiness
. These include,
living conditions, wealth, family, etc. Remove the comma
apply
For example
, a poorer person
in Africa may not have wealth,
but have Remove the comma
apply
family
which gives them enough Add an article
a family
happiness
. This
is why some of these studies are not reliable but may be able to give some indication of how happiness
can be measured.
There are some ways people can be happier. The main way would be to prioritise what makes them happy. As discussed above, this
can vary from person
to person
. Moreover
, a big reason people are not happy in modern society is that their focus is always on what they don’t have as opposed to what they do have. Consequently
, making them feel empty and dissatisfied with life. Therefore
, being grateful is a key factor to achieve happiness
and practicing
being grateful can be quite simple. Change the spelling
practising
For example
, every morning, people can write down three things they are grateful for before starting their day.
In conclusion, happiness
is very personal and may have a different meaning to
each Change preposition
for
person
. Being able to identify what makes a person
happy and focusing on that would be the way to achieve happiness
. There are no set parameters so everyone’s journey is different.Submitted by uzi99 on
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