When we are children we were used to the concept of living happily ever after. But everyone has their own concept of being happy like for example being able to drink every night and have no restrictions on what you are doing in life or being married and have a home with a white picket fence. Happiness has millions of different meanings to the billions of people in the world and beyond. But what does it really mean to be happy? Being able to achieve happiness has always been a difficult to achieve matter whether you’ve realized what you have and be humble to be blessed that you are living like this or the greedier version of wanting to buy things for your happiness. If people do not find happiness from within, they cannot find it outside themselves since external circumstances …show more content…
Is it being rich and powerful? Is it fulfilling your goals? Or maybe is it being content with a small and uneventful life? Happiness is subjective and although it may seem easily defined, it is hard to know what one's happiness is. In the traditional and most common use of the word, happiness is the state of being happy, but what is happiness for one person might be something completely different to another. Looking back to its origins, the word happiness comes from a Greek philosophy, specifically “Eudaimonia”. Translated as close as it could possibly be, eudaimonia means “Human Flourishing”. Broken down, the word “eu” and “daimon” mean “good” and “spirit” respectively. Eudaimonia is basically happiness and was debated over through different philosophical ideologies; Aristotle and the Stoics. Aristotle recognizes that being happy comes from within and from physical things such as wealth, beauty, items, and so on. The Stoics argue that happiness can only come from within and not succumbing to our humanly desires and