Definition Essay On Happiness

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi said this in the early 1800s and still is echoing throughout history; fuelling the human’s search for the meaning of “happiness’. Humans made it simple, many of them use the term interchangeably with “subjective well-being,” which they measure by simply asking people to report how satisfied they feel with their own lives and how much positive and negative emotion they’re experiencing thus “subjective” , but is it truly? Throughout the century, human’s definition for the word “happiness” became augmented, mixed or even redefined by our early philosophers, but still our late predecessors, for example Gandhi, will forever influence this idea, why?

Connections between humans is really one of the many foundations we humans live upon and needs to be nourished to let the definition of “happiness”, for some people, to forever imbue the airs of humanity. The connections that were made introduces so many aspect of life, whether it’s just making bond or discussing theories, it shaped what we now life today. Connections comes at a price, and that is accepting differences or “diversity”. “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” This is defined beautifully by Malcom Forbes, an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, made us think, why do we accept differences in the first place? Well, as early as 1000B.C they who have lived in this earth were nomads, until they saw needs that let them to stay at a certain place for husbandry and etc. We humans are ready to make change when we see needs, thats the facts; this ofcourse let to a civilization that slowly encouraged trading for goods to fit each and everyone’s

We can clearly see this in the rise of Hitler that led to the Holocaust or Shoah. Hitler’s rise in power was due to the strong anti-Semitic tradition in Europe, this unbalanced view that shows no justice made by us rich or powerful human to eliminate other humans of different views that is to be said unworthy of reconciliation; this is clearly unfair or even ruthless. World war I and World war II showed this clearly; we need to keep the diversity we see in people today as, really a stepping stone for any further “modernizations” or even life for that matter. After the war everything did changed ofcourse, diversity where accepted and respected due to multilateral relations between countries, for example the UN and well-grounded international institutions; it led to connectivity and the acceptance of